[mrtg] Re: Feature Suggestion

[Jakob Ilves]

Hello!

My $.02 here...

I think the best way is to implement an option like "--options-file=filename" which makes cfgmaker
sort of replace the string "--options-file=filename" with the contents of the file "filename" thus
expanding the number of command line arguments.

As pointed out below, this saves some repeated typing as I also have a large number of config files
which have a large number of arguments to cfgmaker in common.

Another upside of this "--options-file" is that you can use it to work around the arbitrary limit
some operating systems put on the command line sizes.

If nobody else does, I'm willing to try implementing this feature in cfgmaker well enough for it to
be included in the MRTG distribution.  It's been in my pipeline of "needed cfgmaker features" for a
while.  Of course, I cannot make any commitments of when I've created this piece of code...   Perhaps
a month or two.

Best regards

/IlvJa


nellson at or.blm.gov wrote:

> That would work for the CFG file options, certainly. Would that work for
> the flags? Though I guess the flags themselves are not all that lengthy..
>
> It's a good suggestion, thank you!
>
> Nick
>
>
>                     "Daniel J
>                     McDonald"                To:     <nellson at or.blm.gov>, <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
>                     <dmcdonald at digico        cc:
>                     ntech.com>               Subject:     RE: [mrtg] Feature Suggestion
>
>                     03/02/01 10:53 AM
>
>
>
> > From: nellson at or.blm.gov
> > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:37 PM
> > To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [mrtg] Feature Suggestion
> >
> [...]
> > It would be a great feature if cfgmaker and indexmaker
> > had an option to read in globals from a single file. that way I could put
> > all this just once into a single "profile" file if you will, and keep the
> > actual command line smaller. I think at some point ther is an actual
> limit
> > to what will work on a single command line anyway, isn't there?
>
> How about putting them in a file, and then using the include: command on
> that file?
>
> So, you would have base-globals.cfg with all of your default settings,
> then:
>
> cfgmaker ... --global 'include: base-globals.cfg' ...
>
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