hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 11/02/2010 03:56 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> Maybe it could just be considered a warning and not a fatal error?  I
> can ignore warnings :)
> 

Yes and no. The code returns NULL for non-existing hostgroups referenced
(which should remain an error) and NULL for existing hostgroups without
member hosts. It needs to be changed to return an int and pass the data
back as an out-argument, and I simply don't have time to do that just
now.

So yes, it could be considered an error, and no that won't happen in
the foreseeable future unless someone else sends me a patch for it. I'd
be delighted to apply such a patch if someone did though, and especially
if it was configurable from nagios.cfg whether empty hostgroups
referenced from services was an error or just a warning, with error
enabled by default.

The patch must not change the object layouts as defined in
include/objects.h.

Backwards compatibility is kinda boring to cater to, but it's necessary
for projects as large as Nagios.

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