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Nagios check_linux_raid missing in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

I just upgrade a KVM virtual machine host from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). Everything went smoothly except for one problem: The check_linux_raid script is missing in the updated version of the nagios-plugins-standard package.

The nagios-plugins-contrib package seems to contain a script which basically does the same job, but this package has a lot of other plugins that pull tons of additional dependencies, so I did not want to install this package. Luckily, just copying the check_linux_raid script from a system with the older version of Ubuntu worked fine for me.