[Nagiosplug-devel] nagios and local sockets patch

[Alex Samorukov]

sean finney wrote:

>hi alex,
>
>On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:50:39PM +0300, Alex Samorukov wrote:
>  
>
>>I want to ask to check and commit patch for nagios plugins which allow 
>>to check services on local sockets.
>>The patch is located on 
>>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1145413&group_id=29880&atid=397599 
>>.
>>I use it on my freebsd box, and it work just fine. Some users wrote me 
>>mail that they used this patch too. I hope to see it commited.
>>    
>>
>
>short synopsis: if the hostname starts with a '/', the net code
>defaults to opening a local socket instead of an inet socket.  
>
>anyone else want to chimein on whether they feel that's reasonable? my
>thought is there should be a cmdline flag to imply that a "host" should
>be interpreted as a local socket instead, but don't feel too strongly
>about it.
>  
>
I take this logic from the bsd telnet sources. Here is short text from 
the telnet man:
===
host
Indicates the official name, an alias, or the Internet address of a 
remote host.  If host starts with a `/', telnet establishes a connection 
to the corresponding named socket.
===
I think that hostname cannot start with "/" characters and local socket 
always can be referenced as absolute pathname. So i dont think that we 
need different key for this. Anyway, if someone not agree with this i 
can create a new patch.