sugested update for location.h.in

[Marcel J.E. Mol]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:56:56AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel at mesa.nl> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My first post to the list... I just started playing with nagios and doing
> > some test developments. For this I need the location of the directory
> > where all config files reside. I noticed that all config files are defined
> > with absolute paths and the config directory itself is not defined.
> >
> > It like to suggest a change to location.h.in so I can define new config
> > files within a single source file without needing to update other nagios
> > core files.  The patch is attached. It just adds a DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR
> > define to location.h.in.
> >
> 
> The default value for that macro would cause Nagios to recursively search
> all of /etc for files ending with .cfg.

I think you mistake this with the runtime definition with of cfg_dir in
nagios.cfg.

The suggested define in location.in.h is only a compile time
definition. It allows me to create new source files, say myproject.c
and in it do something like

  fp = open(DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR "myproject.cfg");

without tampering other nagios source files while being flexible at where
the config files reside.  In the current situation I need to create a
file that is processed by the configure step to set the correct place
for config files.

> Try the cfg_dir option in nagios.cfg instead. It should do roughly what you
> want.

So it has nothing to do with cfg_dir...


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