[Nagiosplug-devel] check_file_age thresholds

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagiosplug-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagiosplug-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On 
> Behalf Of Matthias Eble
> Sent: February 26, 2007 7:00
> To: Nagios Plugin Development Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_file_age thresholds
> 
> 
> > I think it's time to start migrating the utils.pm plugins to 
> > Nagios::Plugin.
> 
> have there been any thoughts whether Nagios::Plugin will be 
> bundled or 
> not? I like the libexec approach because we distribute the plugins 
> independently from a central system since most plugins work 
> out of the 
> box without requiring any OS package-dependencies.

What I'm worried about is that AFAIK Perl complains when it finds duplicate
packages in different lib dirs. I especially fear that this could break
ePN...

Maybe a workaround would be to slightly change the name for Nagios::Plugin,
so you can use the system Nagios::Plugin (ex if Mr. Doe writes his own
plugin) and Nagiosplug would use something like:

use lib @libexecdir@;
Use Nagiosplug::Plugin

Since the name is slightly different Perl shouldn't complain. Also there's
no risk of unexpected interactions between the Nagios-plugins and any newer
version of the system Nagios::Plugin (Which IMHO should be avoided at all
costs, this could give ppl a lot of trouble).

> maybe check_file_age could stay as a symlink to check_file. 
> --help could 
> contain a warning message that check_file_age is deprecated 
> and could be 
> removed in the future.

I'd go with this option only if it doesn't break backwards-compatibility
(the thresholds will be reversed!). i.e. if basename($0) eq
'check_file_age', do something so that the thresholds gets rewritten
properly.

We must first settle the Nagios::Plugin issue, then if everyone's ok with
that I'll work on the check_file_age replacement.

Thomas
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