[Nagiosplug-devel] [RFC] Plugins config file

[Vonnahme, Nathan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagiosplug-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagiosplug-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On 
> Behalf Of John P. Rouillard
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:21 AM

> >> Plugins that support this new config file parsing of 
> options take the  
> >> option (as Sean suggested) of
> >> 
> >>   --extra-opts=[configfile][:stanzaname]
> >
> >Syntax quibble: how about 'configfile#section', like URL fragments?
> >Colon is already used in host:/path/to/file forms, and in ranges.
> 
> Well, # has special meaning to the shell. And you may be trying to
> pass this argument across systems using ssh or other mechanism which
> makes getting the quotes really tricky. Hence # $ are bad
> choices. However maybe '/path/to/file at stanzaname' works since it is
> using the entry in the file AT stanzaname.


Wouldn't stanza@/path/to/file be more logical?

Perhaps a CGIish questionmark would work?
	--extra-opts=/path/to/file?stanzaname

Actually it would probably be clearer and more memorable to have two
optional options, so you can omit one easily:
	--cfg-file=/path/to/file --cfg-stanza=stanzaname



I can help with the Perl implementation after Nov 1...

-n