Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tag -1 + confirmed
Hi Sven,
Sven Mäder wrote:
> The commands `netstat` and `ifconfig` provided by package `net-tools`
> used in the script `/usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-linux.sh`
> are not installed by default in testing (stretch).
Thanks for the report.
There is definitely a package relation to net-tools missing. Hence
setting the severity to "serious".
The only thing I'm currently undecided about is the type of relation
xymon-client should have to net-tools: A hard "Depends" or a softer
"Recommends". The latter would pull in net-tools by default (unless
you set 'APT::Install-Recommends="false"' of course), but the admin
might decide to uninstall it again.
Reason for this is that /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-linux.sh
uses those tools in a way that it only fails gracefully by just not
reporting the information it would gather by using them. But does not
fail to work at all. Then again, it also does not report this as an
issue. The issue only shows up by not reporting these details.
Regards, Axel
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