On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jimmy Olsen wrote: > tags 291855 +fixed-upstream > thanks, > > Once upon a time, Micah Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sagely scribed: > > > > Please find enclosed a plugin that will monitor perdition's logfiles > > and graph the different service connections and errors. > > The plugin has been added to the 1.2 and 1.3 CVS, as a contrib plugin. > Some minor changes was made: > > - The location of the PERDITION_LOG was made configurable. > - The location of LOGTAIL was made configurable. > - Handling of non-"-f" logtail was added. > - TEMP_FILE uses mktemp for security. > - Superfluous grep when getting field values was removed.
Again, good changes, when I can track down where your modified version is I will be sure to use these in the future if I make new plugins. > If you modify your plugin slightly to use COUNTER or DERIVE instead of > GAUGE, I'll make it an auto plugin. :-) Same question as before, COUNTER seems counter-intuitive, but I might not understand why, after looking at the different types ABSOLUTE seems right, but now I am not so sure. > Also, which license are your two contributed plugins (perdition and > courier_)? GPL? oh, of course, as a debian developer who intends to have these included in the debian package, they definately need to be DFSG compliant, so GPL it away :) micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
