Bug 709741

Summary: nagios-plugins-ntp has unnecessary dependencies
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Chapman <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: nagios-pluginsAssignee: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: jose.p.oliveira.oss, lemenkov, linux, ondrejj
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Description Michael Chapman 2011-06-01 14:36:28 UTC 
Description of problem:

nagios-plugins-ntp explicitly depends on /usr/sbin/ntpdate, /usr/sbin/ntpdc and /usr/sbin/ntpq, however it does not actually need any of these. This makes this plugin somewhat harder to use on systems that don't have ntp.org's NTP daemon and utilities installed (e.g. systems using an alternate NTP implementation, like OpenNTPD).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nagios-plugins-ntp-1.4.15-2.fc14

Additional info:

The check_ntp.pl script in the nagios-plugins distribution uses ntpdate and ntpq, however this script is not packaged.
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