Notification period inheritance problem

[Gordon Messmer]

Last week I raised an issue on the nagios-user list which I believe is a 
minor bug in nagios.  The documentation appears to indicate that using 
"null" should prevent the inheritance of values from templates, and that 
an unspecified value for notification_period in a service definition 
will cause notifications to be send only during the associated host's 
notification_period.  What actually happens is slightly different from 
what the documentation appears to suggest.  The code will prevent 
inheritance of the template's value, but will still set 
have_notification_period=TRUE.  This prevents inheritance.  Since the 
notification_period attribute isn't actually set, I believe that setting 
have_notification_period=TRUE is a bug.

Is there a reason for this behavior that I'm missing?  If not, could it 
be changed to more closely match the documentation?


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