One of the things I think would be cool in portmon (other than possibly
splitting out news/nntp) would be the possibility of a "template" key-
word (ie. to cut down on file size).
So, instead of five entries that look very similiar to the following:
-- begin
HOST news-1 172.16.1.1 NNTPport 119 Critical
critical space
info expire
critical Bad file number writing history file -- throttling
info posting ok
info no posting
-- end
The entire subseet of the file could be:
-- begin
# Format:
# POLLINTERVAL 600
# READTIMEOUT 30
#
# TEMPLATE HOST-<name> <variable> <port#> <failseverity> [send-string]
# [maxseverity response]
#
# HOST <name> <addr> <variable> <port#> <failseverity> [send-string]
# [maxseverity response]
#
# HOST-<name> <name> <addr>
#
# News/NNTP Servers
TEMPLATE HOST-NEWS NNTPport 119 Critical
critical space
info expire
critical Bad file number writing history file -- throttling
info posting ok
info no posting
HOST-NEWS news-1 172.16.1.1
HOST-NEWS news-1 172.16.1.2
HOST-NEWS news-1 172.16.1.3
HOST-NEWS news-1 172.16.1.4
HOST-NEWS news-1 172.16.1.5
-- end
I think this would shorten some config files by a rather large amount,
and possibly improve their readability. (Unfortunately, I tend to hate
writing C -- so I guess this is part of a larger "wish list")
Russell
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