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Summary: Review Request: nagios-plugins-rsync - Nagios plugin to monitor remote rsync servers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423821
------- Additional Comments From jima@beer.tclug.org 2008-07-03 10:31 EST ------- If it's noarch, %{_libdir} doesn't work sanely, and it doesn't reliably end up the same place as all the other (arch-specific and noarch) Nagios plugins. The same package (using /usr/lib or /usr/lib64) will be used on 32- and 64-bit hosts, and it's going to be the wrong place on one of them. (Unless I'm completely missing something, anyway.) Pretending the package is arch-specific is a hack, but it's a hack to play nice with the rest of nagios-plugins. (Which I did elaborate on in my first comment...)
The difference between the two is that the one you cited didn't exist when I filed this review request. Of course, I'm not seeing any actual code for that one, either, so I'm not sure I can agree that it's "better" than this one (as touted by its author). The page has a dead link, and the month-old page hasn't had an update in nearly three. So I guess I can add "this one has published code" to my answer. :-)
I'll readily acknowledge that this plugin is probably sub-par quality. Unfortunately, it fulfills a niche for which there aren't really, as far as I've seen, alternatives.