Plugin that will test nagios.cfg

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Marc Powell wrote:

> If you can reliably reproduce this with a '/etc/init.d/nagios reload' or
> 'restart' then you should report it as a bug. Nagios is meant to not
> crash or bail a running copy if the new config is bad.

If nagios can not start due to a broken config then a restart WILL die. A 
restart is nothing short of a stop and start of the program.

Wether or not an attempt to reload a broken config should result in a 
program failure is not clear to me. But I would consider as-is and would 
not considere it a bug if it would die on a reload of a broken config.

As the admin it is my job to give nagios a sane config. If I fail to 
provide nagios one then I understand nagios is getting rather 
disappointed.

Hugo.

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