Can't stop notifications using notifications_enabled (nagios bug?)

[Yanek Korff]

I want to have notifications globally "enabled," but only receive notifications from very few (5-10) out of the several thousand service checks our Nagios server is running.  I seem to be having trouble in a general sense getting notifications to 
be, by default, disabled.

If I have my service template defined as:
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_interval           0
        notification_options            w,c
        notifications_enabled           0

And individual services are defined with (redundant, I know):
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_interval           0
        notification_options            w,c
        notifications_enabled           0

I get notifications from these services anyway!  And it's real haphazard.  I use a script to write all my nagios configuration files out so they're VERY consistent.  No possibility of typo in just one file or anything.  In a list of 25 services for a 
given host, I'll see this (NOTE: all of these checks are running THROUGH nrpe, unless otherwise specified):
notifications are disabled (good!) for:
check_procs checks for a particular daemon
check_procs checks for all processes (RSZDT) and running processes (R)
check_users, check_vmstat with arguments to check CPU (plugin I wrote)

notifications are NOT disabled (bad, they should be, notifications_enabled is set to 0 just like the others)
check_procs checks for zombie processes (Z)
check_disk, check_load, check_swap, check_vmstat with arguments to check faults and paging,
check_mailq, check_ntp, REMOTE checks via check_tcp, REMOTE dnsmatch (plugin I wrote to validate A <-> PTR),

So strange!  A few of them show up as notifications being disabled, but others don't.  IF I click on a service that says disabled in the service status details for host page, the service state information does say service notifications are disabled.  
If I check the ones that list as enabled in the service status details page, sure enough the sevice notifications say ENABLED in the status details for host page.

BUT.  If I go into View Config and look at whether notifications are enabled for any of these services, they ALL SAY THAT NOTIFICATIONS ARE NOT ENABLED.  Boggles the mind.



Now... if I change the template to period "none" and options "n" and I DON'T specify anything in the service checks, then notifications don't get sent out.  Which is what I want.  But why would notifications get sent out when 
notifications_enabled is set to 0?  Right now, notifications_enabled is set to 0 in the template... I recompiled the nagios binary with -DDEBUG4 and I can see:

SERVICE NOTIFICATION ATTEMPT: Service 'Local - Daemon: snort' on host 'hostname-goes-here'
        Current time: Thu Nov 11 14:35:32 2004
        Notifications are temporarily disabled for this service, so we won't send one out!
        Sending out a notification for this service is not viable at this time.

It's clear that the notification is being suppressed by period being "none," not notifications_enabled being 0.  Can someone provide some clarity here?

-Yanek.
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