Mistake in Nagios documentation about embedded perl ???

[Yann Jouanin]

Hello everyone,

 

I was surprised to read this phrase in the nagios documentation about
embedded perl : 

 

"Without the embedded Perl interpreter, Nagios executes Perl (and non-Perl)
plugins by forking and executing the plugins as an external command. When
the embedded Perl interpreter is used, Nagios can execute Perl plugins by
simply making a library call. >

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/passivechecks.html

 

If I had read correctly the code in base/checks.c, Nagios compile the plugin
code using EPN, then fork and execute the previously compiled script.

Otherwise I guess a perl script with an infinity loop would make Nagios
stucks.

 

Am I wrong?

 

 

Yann Jouanin

 

http://www.yannj.fr

 

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