Mr Hopcroft, My first reaction was an unqualified "yuk!, what nitwit would even consider this", then I noticed it was you, and having seen your ever useful posts since the Netsaint 0.0.7 days, I relented. Although hearing vi called "anachronistic" ruffles a couple of feathers. Notepad isn't? No accounting for taste...
I can't actually speak to your specific question, but it just seems like a scary thought. Better to run samba on the Nagios machine and let them mount it, and/or SVN. And then there's the GUI method, of course. good luck! tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null