On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Scott A. Davis wrote: > Greetings ... > > I have looked for this answer before pestering the group with such trivial > info ... I would like to add the $desc_string to my mail.alert file. > > I did not see a get_opt that clearly defined that. Is there a trick to > this, or is it simple to do?
not much of a trick. this information is in the man page (for once!!). the description for the group/service is available to both monitors and alerts via the MON_DESCRIPTION environment variable. see the "ALERT PROGRAMS" section in mon.8 for even more details. _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon