Bug#418860: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#418860: nagios2-common: Should notify by email with FQDN address

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:48:28PM +0200, Michel Grentzinger wrote:
> In /etc/nagios2/conf.d/contacts_nagios2.cfg, email of the admin
> contact is defined to root at localhost.
> 
> In order to facilitate the filtering of mail sended by nagios
> (particulary if there is more than 1 serveur and 1 client) , it would
> be better to add the fully qualified domain name at this address. 
> 
> For my personnal use, I use root at kayak.homeg.lan (my nagios server).
> It would be great if the FQDN could be added while installation
> process.

Modifying the configuration file on the fly means losing the support
of automated conffile handling. I currently do not think that it is
worth this hassle. As Nagios 2.x does not seem to offer a macro
containing the FQDN of the local host, I am tempted to tag this bug
wontfix.

Greetings
Marc

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