configuration directory

[Gaspar, Carson]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 6:33 AM
>To: AL13N
>Cc: Nagios Developers List
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] configuration directory
>
>On 2013-09-04 12:51, AL13N wrote:
>> would this mean that if you have
>>
>> setting1=value
>>
>> setting2=value
>>
>> include=/path/to/foo
>>
>> setting3=value
>>
>> that being parsed would:
>> 1) setting1
>> 2) setting2
>> 3) all from /path/to/foo if it's a file or directory
>> 4) setting3
>>
>>
>> is this the priority that you aim for?
>>
>
>No. All variables from one file should be parsed before any
>variables
>from a different file, but the include-files from one file get
>parsed
>before we move along to the next file in that directory.

I know I'm late to this discussion, but please don't do this. If you insist, please don't use the word "include", as the behavior you describe is not the behavior one expects from the word "include". Perhaps "append"?

-- 
Carson Gaspar


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