RFC: New IPC Method for Check Results

[Peter Westlake]

Ethan Galstad <nagios at nagios.org> writes:

> Instead of passing check results from child processes to the main Nagios 
> process via two methods (pipe and file), I suggest that all information 
> be written to files in a special check result queue directory (e.g., 
> var/checkresults).

Could you put it into /var/spool/nagios, to conform to the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard?

<http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARSPOOLAPPLICATIONSPOOLDATA>.

You can make subdirectories if you need to.

Peter.


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