[Nagiosplug-devel] Plugin guideline suggestion

[Voon, Ton]

Jason,

While I think this suggestion has merit, we usually use check_xxx --version
to grab the version number (which also displays the release version too). Is
there a specific reason you want the what identifiers?

Ton

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Martin [mailto:jhmartin at toger.us] 
Sent: 17 January 2005 18:39
To: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] Plugin guideline suggestion


Might I suggest that the plugin guidelines be amended to suggest that the
what/ident identifiers be included in the source code? 

For compiled binaries the standard is usually to create a string constant
with the contents 
@(#)$Header$ 
with CVS expanding Header. Interpreted scripts can just put that string in
the comment field somewhere.

Doing so will make gathering the version information for a set of installed
plugins easier.

Thanks,
-Jason Martin
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