Compiling Perl check scripts

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Morris, Patrick
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:52 PM
> To: Adam Kennedy; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Compiling Perl check scripts
> 
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Adam Kennedy


> > What method has anyone used to compile perl scripts? I am using perl
> > modules (mainly Net::SNMP, Net::DNS and various others) with the
> > scripts. I tried perlcc but it didn't work. Any other ideas?
> >
> > Should I just bite the bullet and attempt to write a C app to do the
> > functions of my perl scripts instead? I would really hate to do
that,
> > as
> > my C skills don't go far beyond "Hello World".
> 
> This is the sort of thing the embedded perl interpreter was made for.
> If Nagios is built with it, it won't need to load and compile your
> scripts every time they run.
> 

Indeed but it's important to point out that there are some special
requirements for your perl plugins. More information can be found at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/embeddedperl.html.

--
Marc

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