Revision: 1796
http://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/nagiosplug/?rev=1796&view=rev
Author: tonvoon
Date: 2007-09-24 11:51:07 -0700 (Mon, 24 Sep 2007)
Log Message:
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State that stderr should not have any output
Modified Paths:
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nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
Modified: nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
===================================================================
--- nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml 2007-09-24 18:45:59 UTC (rev 1795)
+++ nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml 2007-09-24 18:51:07 UTC (rev 1796)
@@ -87,11 +87,14 @@
the entire output to appear in a pager message, which will get chopped
off after a certain length.</para>
+ <para>As Nagios does not capture stderr output, you should only output to
+ STDOUT and not print to STDERR.</para>
+
<section><title>Print only one line of text</title>
<para>Nagios will only grab the first line of text from STDOUT
when it notifies contacts about potential problems. If you print
- multiple lines, you're out of luck. Remember, keep it short and
- to the point.</para>
+ multiple lines, you're out of luck (though this will be a feature of
+ Nagios 3). Remember, keep your output short and to the point.</para>
<para>Output should be in the format:</para>
<literallayout>
@@ -139,8 +142,9 @@
<section><title>Screen Output</title>
<para>The plug-in should print the diagnostic and just the
- synopsis part of the help message. A well written plugin would
+ usage part of the help message. A well written plugin would
then have --help as a way to get the verbose help.</para>
+
<para>Code and output should try to respect the 80x25 size of a
crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para>
</section>
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