empty hostgroups forbidden in 2.0b6

[Phil Mayers]

moving from 2.0b3

"[root at monhost nagios]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v 
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg -h

Nagios 2.0b6
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 11-30-2005
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...

Error: Hostgroup has no members (config file 
'/usr/local/nagios/etc/dynamic/ic.cfg', starting on line 161)

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To which I'd reply - so what?

This is particularly annoying for us. We (re)build the nagios 
configuration every 5 minutes (and HUP if diff says so) from an 
extensive SQL database containing routers, switches, hosts, networks, 
routing topology and so on.

The hostgroups in question are per-building and per-wiring-centre. 
They're just extracted as a list and added to the config file. If I have 
to only add ones which actually contain stuff, I'll have to keep a list 
of what was touched whilst building the other devices and then append 
them - this means each time I add a new device type to the export 
script, I have to remember to include the code. Annoying.

Is there a practical reason for this change? Or would a patch/revert be 
accepted?


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