As proposed on pkgsrc-users@...
- Introduce NAGIOSDIR, defaults to VARBASE/spool/nagios, for log
and status files.
- Drop unused(?) 'nagadmin' user and group.
- Sync user and group handling with Nagios install
documentation/recommendations. Introduce the Nagios "external
command" group, NAGIOSCMD_GROUP, defaults to APACHE_GROUP. The
Nagios user should be manually added after package installation to
the NAGIOSCMD_GROUP group. Add this recommandation to the MESSAGE
file. Make the "external command directory", NAGIOSDIR/rw, owned
by NAGIOS_USER:NAGIOSCMD_GROUP.
- Use /var/run/nagios.lock as pidfile.
- Only install existing example configuration files.
- Put default values of NAGIOSDIR, NAGIOS_USER, NAGIOS_GROUP and
NAGIOSCMD_GROUP in mk/defaults/mk.conf and allow MAKECONF to
override them.
- Miscellaneous clean up and sync with the changes mentionned above.
- When deleting the package allow removal of directories shared
with other Nagios packages to fail.
Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your
network. It has the ability to email or page you when a problem arises
and when it gets resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to
run under Linux, although it should work under most other *NIX variants.
It can run either as a normal process or as a daemon, intermittently
running checks on various services that you specify. The actual service
checks are performed by external "plugins" which return service
information to Nagios. Several CGI programs are included with Nagios
in order to allow you to view the current service status, history, etc.
via a web browser.
This package provides the core nagios infrastructure and web pages.
