Confusing documentation about the defauilt format for hosts.cfg

Sean Knox sean.knox at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 15 22:23:33 CEST 2002


Use the template style. It is *much* easier to work with and will save 
you extensive time when adding new hosts/objects/dependencies/etc.

Sean

Robert S. Galloway wrote:

> I have just installed nagios 1.06b and am confused about one thing. 
> According to the documentation the default for the hosts.cfg file is 
> the old style. However, make install-config creates config files that 
> are based on the template style. So, my questions are which format 
> really is the default and do you still need to specify 
> -with-template-objects when you run configure?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
> Robert S. Galloway
>
> Chief Network Security Engineer
>
> IKANO Communications
>
> ...the Internet branding company
>
> Official Data Networking Services Provider for the
>
> Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games of 2002
>
> securityguy at ikano.com
>
> 801-415-8089
>
>  
>


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