nagios_nrpe/Changelog

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NRPE Changelog
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2.8b1 - 03/??/2007
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- Changes to sample config files
- Added ';' as an additional prohibited metachar for command arguments
- Updated documentation and added easier installation commands


2.7.1 - 03/08/2007
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- Changed C++ style comment to C style to fix compilation errors on AIX (Ryan McGarry)


2.7 - 02/18/2007
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- Patches for detection SSL header and library locations (Andrew Boyce-Lewis)
- NRPE daemon will now partially ignore non-fatal configuration file errors and attempt to startup (Andrew Boyce-Lewis)


2.6 - 12/11/2006
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- Added -u option to check_nrpe to return UNKNOWN states on socket timeouts (Bjoern Beutel)
- Added connection_timeout variable to NRPE daemon to catch dead client connections (Ton Voon)
- Added graceful timeout to check_nrpe to ensure connection to NRPE daemon is properly closed (Mark Plaksin)


2.5.2 - 06/30/2006
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- Fixed incorrect service name in sample xinetd config file
- Added note on how to restart inetd for OpenBSD users (Robert Peaslee)
- Fix for nonblocking accept()s on systems that define EAGAIN differently than EWOULDBLOCK (Gerhard Lausser)
- Fix to (re)allow week random seed (Gerhard Lausser)


2.5.1 - 04/09/2006
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- Patch to fix segfault if --no-ssl option is used (Sean Finney/Peter Palfrader)


2.5 - 04/06/2006
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- (Re)added allowed_hosts option for systems that don't support TCP wrappers
- Fix for SSL errors under Solaris 8 (Niels Endres)
- Fix for config file directory inclusion on ReiserFS (Gerhard Lausser)


2.4 - 02/22/2006
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- Added option to allow week random seed (Gerhard Lausser)
- Added optional command line prefix (Sean Finney)
- Added ability to reload config file with SIGHUP
- Fixed bug with location of dh.h include file
- Fixed bug with disconnect message in debug mode


2.3 - 01/23/2006
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- Spec file fixes
- Removed errant PID file debugging code
- Fixed problem with trimming command definitions


2.2 - 01/22/2006
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- Spec file fix
- Patch to add Tru64 and IRIX support (Ton Voon)
- Updated config.sub and config.guess
- Fixed bug with config file lines with only whitespace
- Fixed bug with missing getopt() command line option for -V
- Removed sample FreeBSD init script (now maintained by FreeBSD port)
- Added config file option for writing a PID file


2.1 - 01/19/2004
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- Replaced host access list with TCP wrapper support
- Removed length restrictions for command names and command lines
- Configure script patch for getopt_long on Solaris
- Bug fixes for accept() on HP-UX 11.0
- Init script for SUSE Linux (Subhendu Ghosh)
- SSL protocol used is now limited to TLSv1
- Any output from plugins after first line is now ignored before
  plugin process is closed


2.0 - 09/08/2003
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- Added support for passing arguments to command
- NRPE daemon can no longer be run as root user/group
- Added getopt support
- Added 'include' variable to config file to allow inclusion
  of external config files
- Added 'include_dir' variable to allow inclusion of external
  config files in directories (with recursion)
- Added native SSL support (Derrick Bennett)
- Added my_strsep(), as Solaris doesn't have strsep()
- Added license exemption for use with OpenSSL


1.8 - 01/16/2003
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- Daemon now closes stdio/out/err properly (James Peterson)
- Makefile changes (James Peterson)
- Mode command line option bug fix in daemon
- Fixed incorrect command line options in check_nrpe plugin


1.7 - 01/08/2003
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- Spec file updates and minor bug fixes (James Peterson)
- Bug fix with default nrpe port definition
- Added sample xinetd config file (nrpe.xinetd)
- Bug fix for command_timeout variable (James Peterson)


1.6 - 12/30/2002
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- Updated sample commands to match new plugin argument format
- Added sample init scripts for FreeBSD and Debian (Andrew Ryder)
- Syntax changes (-H option specifies host name in check_nrpe, 
  -c option specifies config file in nrpe)
- Added command_timeout directive to config file to allow user
  to specify timeout for executing plugins
- Added spec file and misc patches for building RPMs (James Peterson)
- Added --with-nrpe-port config directive (James Peterson)


1.5 - 06/03/2002
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- Added setuid/setgid option to config file (suggested by Marek Cervenka) 


1.4 - 06/01/2002
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- Changed STATE_UNKNOWN to value of 3 instead of -1 (old style)
- Minor doc and sample config file changes


1.3 - 02/21/2002
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- Name and version change
- Ignore SIGHUP, minor cleanup (Jon Andrews)


1.2.5 - 12/22/2001
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- Implemented Beej's sendall() to handle partial send()s
- Added instructions on running under xinetd to README
- Removed some old crud


1.2.4 - 02/22/2001
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- I forgot what changes I made.  Go figure...


1.2.3 - 12/21/2000
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- A bit more documentation on configuring command definitions for the plugin


1.2.2 - 06/05/2000
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- Fixed error in docs for running under inetd using TCP wrappers
- Replaced old email address in src/netutils.h with new one


1.2.1 - 05/07/2000
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- Removed trapping of SIGCHLD
- Changed wait4() to waitpid() to allow compilation on HP-UX and AIX


1.2.0 - 04/18/2000
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- Server forks twice after accepting a client connection, so as to prevent the
  creation of zombies


1.1.5 - 04/07/2000
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- Fixed a small bug where one debug message was not getting logged properly


1.1.4 - 03/30/2000
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- Added option to disable/enable debug messages using the debug option in the
  config file


1.1.3 - 03/11/2000
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- Changed config file to use an absolute path
- Changed all debug output to use syslog (Rene Klootwijk)
- No convert all data to network order before sending it and convert it back to
  host order when receiving it. This makes it possible to mix Solaris and Linux,  
  e.g. running check_nrpe on Linux and nrpe on Solaris. (Rene Klootwijk)


1.1.2 - 03/07/2000
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- Removed unnecessary code in signal handler routine
- Unused signals are no longer trapper


1.1.1 - 02/28/2000 - RKL
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- Modified syslog code to include string describing the error code.
- Changed hardcoded number in signal handler to its name. This prevented nrpe
  to run on Solaris.
- Fixed race condition in accept loop. The result of accept should also be
  checked for EINTR.
- Modified recv and send function calls to compile without warnings on Solaris.
- Modified configure.in,configure and Makefile.in to include nsl and socket libs
  for Solaris.
- Modified the signal handler to reestablish itself after being called.



1.1 - 02/24/2000 - Rene Klootwijk <rene@klootwijk.org>
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- Added ability to bind nrpe to a specific interface by specifying the address
  of this interface in the nrpe.cfg file (e.g. server_address=192.168.2.3)


1.0   - 02/16/2000
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- Added ability to run as a service under inetd


1.0b6 - 02/01/2000
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- Added configure script
- Netutils functions from the NetSaint plugins is now used
- Reset SIGCHLD to default behavior before calling popen() to
  prevent race condition with pclose() (Reported by Rene Klootwijk)
- Cleaned up code


1.0b5 - 01/10/2000
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- Added init script contributed by Jacob L
- Incorporated syslog code and other patches contributed by Jacob L


1.0b4 - 11/04/1999
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- Changed 'allowed_ip' option in configuration file to
  'allowed_hosts' and added support for multiple hosts
- Minor buffer overflow protection fixes
- main() returned STATE_UNKNOWN on successful launch, changed to STATE_OK (jaclu@grm.se)
- Added syslog support (jaclu@grm.se)