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Updated with more detailed description of UNKNOWN states

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crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para>
</section>
<section><title>Return the proper status code</title>
<para>See <xref linkend="ReturnCodes"> below
for the numeric values of status codes and their
description. Remember to return an UNKNOWN state if bogus or
invalid command line arguments are supplied or it you are unable
to check the service.</para>
</section>
<section><title>Plugin Return Codes</title>
<para>The return codes below are based on the POSIX spec of returning
a positive value. Netsaint prior to v0.0.7 supported non-POSIX
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<entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
<entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry>
<entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the
plugin or the plugin was unable to check the status of the given
hosts/service</para></entry>
plugin or low-level failures internal to the plugin (such as unable to fork,
or open a tcp socket) that prevent it from performing the specified
operation. Higher-level errors (such as name resolution errors,
socket timeouts, etc) are outside of the control of plugins and should
generally NOT be reported as UNKNOWN states.
</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>