From 4cd7b1354e82fa18f4c79a0426f86a0fcbf33f58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Weiss Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:16:58 +0100 Subject: doc/extra-opts.md: Change wording a bit diff --git a/web/input/doc/extra-opts.md b/web/input/doc/extra-opts.md index 542c199..91a205b 100644 --- a/web/input/doc/extra-opts.md +++ b/web/input/doc/extra-opts.md @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ parent: Documentation # Extra-Opts -Starting with the 1.4.12 release, Nagios C plugins support reading -configuration options from a configuration file. This needs to be enabled at -compile-time for now (`--enable-extra-opts`) and will be enabled by default in -the future. Perl plugins using the Nagios::Plugin module have this support -since version 0.16. +Starting with the 1.4.12 release, most Nagios Plugins (those written in C) +support reading options from a configuration file. This needs to be enabled +at compile-time for now (`--enable-extra-opts`) and will be enabled by default +in the future. Perl plugins using the [Nagios::Plugin][module] module have +this support since version 0.16. You can easily know if a plugin supports *extra-opts* by checking the `--help` output for the `--extra-opts` option. Once compiled in, the `--extra-opts` @@ -69,4 +69,6 @@ The initial use case for this functionality is for hiding passwords, so you do not have to define sensitive credentials in the Nagios configuration and these options won't appear in the command line. +[module]: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nagios-Plugin/ "Nagios::Plugin" + -- cgit v0.10-9-g596f