[Nagiosplug-devel] Temporary file for plugins

[Andreas Ericsson]

Patrick Proy wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm planning to update some of my snmp scripts and I really need to store
> information - because of counter style variables of snmp -.
> I don't think a temporary file is a good solution (will there be a /tmp on
> every system ? Can nagios user write in it ?), but I didn't find anything
> else.
> 
> Will there be some kind of storage in Nagios 2.0 for the scripts ? 
> A temp directory directive ?
> 

The --sharedstatedir and --localstatedir directives will be available 
for usage with the subst script (as @sharedstatedir@ and 
@localstatedir@) and every posix-compliant system should have the 
$TMPDIR environment variable set.

> Did someone find a good solution ?
> 
> Thanks for your answers,
> 
> Patrick Proy
> nagios at proy.org

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