diff --git a/debian/patches/check_tomcat/epn b/debian/patches/check_tomcat/epn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a2b5aec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/check_tomcat/epn
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+--- a/check_tomcat/check_tomcat
++++ b/check_tomcat/check_tomcat
+@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
+ #!/usr/bin/perl 
++# nagios: -epn
+ 
+ #############################################################################
+ #                                                                           #
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index e69de29..936d40e 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+check_tomcat/epn