[Nagiosplug-devel] RFC: Plugins config file (final proposal)

Matthias Eble matthias.eble at mailing.kaufland-informationssysteme.com
Fri Feb 16 00:24:25 CET 2007


Hi all,

> What about using an environment variable if set. Otherwise look in a  
> set of "common" locations. Given that we use the same prefix as  
> nagios (/usr/local/nagios), maybe /usr/local/nagios/etc/plugins.ini  
> is a decent default. I guess other common locations are:
>   /etc/plugins.ini
>   /etc/nagios/plugins.ini
>   /usr/local/etc/nagios/plugins.ini
>   /usr/local/etc/plugins.ini

perhaps the FHS way should be considered, too: 
/etc/opt/(nagiosplug|nagios-plugins)/plugins.ini

Btw: the filename /etc/plugins.ini is too general in my opinion.
I'd prefer nagios-plugins.ini or nagiosplug.ini






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