Bug 253161 - net-mgmt/smokeping Bug : sending mails in a loop
Summary: net-mgmt/smokeping Bug : sending mails in a loop
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Rodrigo Osorio
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-02-01 14:21 UTC by OlivierW
Modified: 2021-02-02 08:15 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:
bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (rodrigo)


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Add upstream fix to "files/patch-lib_Smokeping.pm" (877 bytes, patch)
2021-02-01 14:21 UTC, OlivierW
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Description OlivierW 2021-02-01 14:21:08 UTC
Created attachment 222077 [details]
Add upstream fix to "files/patch-lib_Smokeping.pm"

Hello,

I continue to migrate my services from Debian to FreeBSD.
On Debian, I have smokeping 2.6.9 and it works well.
On FreeBSD, I have smokeping 2.7.3 with the same configuration (nothing fancy), but I am having a problem: whenever a host is down, smokeping keeps sending alerts by email.

It firsts send an email with this subjct: "[SmokeAlert] hostdown was raised on..." then every five minutes, it sends 
indefinitely this emails: "[SmokeAlert] hostdown was cleared on..."

I've finally found it was a bug which was fixed upstream here: https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/commit/e9004e8bbeb30d33778afaf70a5f8b95ff38d6ba

Here is the bug report for the smokeping project: https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/issues/183

and two others for Debian and Ubuntu:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934170
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smokeping/+bug/1886584


I don't know why smokeping keeps being developed but there are no more releases after 2.7.3, which is from 2018... :-/


On FreeBSD, we already have patches in "files/patch-lib_Smokeping.pm", so I added the fix to this same patch file, I guess it is OK, since we are patching "lib/Smokeping.pm".

I tried it with poudriere and now the behavior of smokeping is correct on my FreeBSD 12.2 server.

Best Regards,
Olivier
Comment 1 Rodrigo Osorio freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-02-01 14:34:57 UTC
Hi,

Thanks for the report, I will take a look at your patch
and commit it accordingly.

The Smokeping project is inactive since a while, and since
the patch is not too big or complex, we can integrate it in
the ports tree.

I'll probably bump the upstream project and ask for a new
release, sometimes it works ;)

Regards,
-- rodrigo
Comment 2 OlivierW 2021-02-01 15:14:25 UTC
Hello Rodrigo,

Thanks for your answer :-)

The smokeping project isn't completely inactive, there are recents commits: https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/commits/master

Yes, a new release would be nive after all this time. At least to fix this bug with alerts. Because without this patch, smokeping is useless for me.

Best Regards,
Olivier
Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-02-02 08:14:59 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: rodrigo
Date: Tue Feb  2 08:14:07 UTC 2021
New revision: 563789
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/563789

Log:
  net-mgmt/smokeping: fix mail loop issue

  Integrate upstream patch[1] to fix mail loop issue #183[2].

  This is a one-line patch without complexity who can be removed
  as soon as the upstream releases a new version.

  [1] https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/commit/e9004e8bbeb30d33778afaf70a5f8b95ff38d6ba
  [2] https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/issues/183

  PR:		253161
  Submitted by:	OlivierW <olivierw1+bugzilla-freebsd@hotmail.com>

Changes:
  head/net-mgmt/smokeping/Makefile
  head/net-mgmt/smokeping/files/patch-lib_Smokeping.pm
Comment 4 Rodrigo Osorio freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-02-02 08:15:48 UTC
Committed, thanks.