Buchan Milne <mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 17:43:54 T.J. Yang wrote:
Hi, SebA
Would mind go one step further ?
get a hobbit developer account from Henrik to update the manpages ?
In other projects I am familiar with, initial contributions start
with patches filed on a tracker. Commit access is *not* necessary for
contribution, but an RCS (which we now have) and interaction with
people who do have commit access is.
(I haven't asked for commit access as I think my own contributions
would need to follow such a path).
Regards,
Buchan
While I'm flattered by your suggestion TJ, I do agree with Buchan.
Especially as I have no proven ability to patch man pages. In fact, I don't
know what the syntax is for them, and while I'm sure I could learn pretty
easily, I'm really too busy in my work to justify this right now. And,
anyway, I was trying to encourage someone who had or knew some more complex
examples to submit them first.
And, on that subject, I was _going_ to ask if it was possible to do this:
HOST=myHost
MAIL myEmail SERVICE=procs,smtp ...
Since that isn't documented either: all the examples have SERVICE on the
same line as HOST. Well, I decided I'd test it myself with:
$ ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test
And the answer is yes so long as you put the SERVICE= after the MAIL
command.
(If the SERVICE= is before the MAIL command, as in:
HOST=myHost
SERVICE=procs,smtp MAIL myEmail ...
then it is as if you had:
HOST=myHost # Becomes irrelevant as the parser reckons the next line is
another completely separate rule.
SERVICE=procs,smtp
MAIL myEmail ...
Which is unlikely to be what you intended.)
Maybe we have now covered all the examples needed though?
Kind regards,
SebA