On 2013-09-02 21:20, AL13N wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm a Mageia distribution packager, and i'm maintaining some event broker
> modules.
>
> since these are packaged seperately we're trying to get things to work out-of-
> the-box for our users, specifically adding event brokers in the configuration
> file for nagios.
>
> the problem we're facing is that: We don't want a nagios addon package to
> rewrite the configuration file itself. however, we would like to add the event
> broker (or other settings) and then reload/restart nagios.
>
> a beneficial thing would be a configuration directory (much like it exists with
> hosts and commands and stuff like that) but for the main nagios configuration
> file.
>
> and if while we're at it, to have multiple directories, where
> /usr/share/nagios/nagios.d/ has the "defaults" which can be overridden in
> /etc/nagios.d/ (for instance) (this is a convention that's growing in use)
>
> I can try to start making a patch for this, but i'm asking about this first, in
> order to find out if it makes a chance of getting accepted.
>
Not only does it stand a chance of getting accepted; It's on the
roadmap. If you start working on it I'll help as much as I can and
I'm willing to accept less-than-awesome quality code, although I'll
polish such later if it turns out to be an issue.
The only real requirement is that any "main" config file option
should be settable from any file in the dropdir.
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