[mrtg] Passing arguments to host template

[Daniel J McDonald]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:28 +0100, Dunc wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I've been getting into host templates quite a lot and it's working well,
> but I've just come across a problem where I really need to pass an
> argument into the host template script which is a path to a config file.
> I was hoping I could just put it after the script name as part of the
> "--host-template=" option but this doesn't work.
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> Is there an easy way to pass arguments in?
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use an $ENV variable.

CMKR_FOO='stuff'; export CMKR_FOO; cfgmaker ...

then refer to it as $ENV{CMKR_FOO};


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