configuration directory and file directives ... perplexity (long and boring). [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Stanley.Hopcroft at Dest.gov.au]

Dear Folks, 

Has anyone used the nagios configuration directive cfg_dir to point to
an SMB (Windows) share ? 

The interest in doing this is that my colleagues hate vi and 'nix; they
are qualified Cisco/Window admins who 
respect Nagios but have no sympathy with anachronistic editors. They
would be much happier using notepad/ 
wordpad to edit the object configuration files. 

When I tried it for myself (Nagios 2.9, removing all the cfg_file
directives from nagios.cfg and adding cfg_dir 
to point to the Windows share), Nagios complained about the main
configuration file directive in cgi.cfg. 

When I changed cfg_dir to point back to the (untouched) Unix path,
nagios -v nagios.cfg still complained. 

I had to 

1 remove the cfg_dir directive 
2 replace the cfg_file directives 

before it would stop whining. 

Thanks for any helpful comments. 

Yours sincerely. 

Stanley Hopcroft 

Data Communications 

02 6211 6110 
0412 766 832 
  

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED


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