Nagios Support Forum

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> To create a patch;
> Get the latest source-code from the CVS (instruction on sourceforge.
> Click 'cvs access' or something like that).
> Delete all the CVS directories and .cvsignore files from it
> --
> cp -a nagios nagios.orig
> rm -rf `find -type d -name CVS`
> rm -rf `find -type f -name .cvsignore`
> --
>
or
check out the code from CVS

$ export
CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/nagios
$ cvs co nagios

.. do your changes
..
$ cvs diff -u > patchfile.

$ vi patchfile (removing crud which should be put into the .cvsignore)

this way you can update the CVS source when people update the codebase.

regards
Ian


>
> Lars Volker wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> wouldn't it be nice if nagios respectively the status.cgi would be
>> able to recognize, if two host- or servicenames are domain names,
>> which means dot-separated (like blabla.foo.bar.org.uk) and then sort
>> the list in an domain-aware kind of way?
>>
>> Example:
>> current behaviour:
>> a.x.org
>> a.y.org
>> b.x.org
>> b.y.org
>>
>> desired behaviour
>> a.x.org
>> b.x.org
>> a.y.org
>> b.y.org
>>
>> I've written a few lines of code, implementing that feature, but i
>> edited the source directly and have never worked with patching stuff.
>> So if someone would like to explain, i'll provide a patch. Anyways the
>> code is just about 9 lines long, simple hack only, but working. There
>> also should be some kind of switch to toggle the behaviour.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Lars
>>
>






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