-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/07/08 11:19 AM, stan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:16:45AM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: >> On Jul 20, 2008, at 9:28 AM, stan wrote: >>> After having looked at the way Nagios plugins work, i have a couple of >>> concerns about this design. The first is the rule that says the status >>> returned by a plugin should be less than 8 characters. The 2nd is >>> that, for >> Perhaps I'm not following but I'm not aware of any such restriction. >> Nagios only really cares about the exit _code_ code of a plugin (1-4) >> and the text is for humans only. That text can be quite large. In >> nagios-2 it must all be on one line. There is a limit but it depends >> on how you're getting your results back to nagios but in all cases is >> much greater than 8 characters (i.e. ~500 at minimum I believe for >> passive checks). In nagios-3 it can be split across multiple lines >> (with documented caveats) with no limit I believe (but check the >> documentation). >> > > Sorry for the 8, it was supposed to be 80, and came from a web page I read > about developing NAGIO plugins. If I recall the reason corectly, it was > because that status might go to a printed report?
In the official Nagios-plugins we enforce a 80-characters limit on the - --help output as the plugins might get configured from a 80x24 text terminal (just to avoid line breaks - it won't break anything though). That's the only 80 characters limit I've ever heard about... Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIg33R6dZ+Kt5BchYRAlPHAKDbA427nKf8G7Z6BbmiBCk5sQR1hgCg8vZ/ vDXYnhuI6Fz0DQb+rpXRsz4= =X9ME -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
