[PATCH] Fix to allow incomplete service dependency templates

[Gaspar, Carson]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
>[mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
>Of Ethan Galstad
>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:05 PM
>To: Nagios-Devel
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] Fix to allow incomplete 
>service dependency templates
>
>Jason Hoos wrote:
>> 
>> Since it's not a registered object, the servicedependency template 
>> should be valid, but Nagios reports "Could not expand dependent 
>> hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service dependency" instead.
>> 
>
>Actually, I think this should result in an error message, even 
>though the template dependency isn't going to be registered.  
>Better to catch a problem earlier, rather than later when the 
>template is being used.

I violently disagree. Templates are, by definition, semantically
incomplete. Why is this config line any more or less vital than every
other missing config line? By your logic, templates shouldn't exist at
all.

-- 
Carson

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