[mrtg] Passing arguments to host template

[Dunc]

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Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:28 +0100, Dunc wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to pass arguments in?
>>
> 
> use an $ENV variable.
> 
> CMKR_FOO='stuff'; export CMKR_FOO; cfgmaker ...
> 
> then refer to it as $ENV{CMKR_FOO};

Hiya Daniel,

Works like a charm, thanks very much for your help again.

Cheers,

Dunc


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