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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml index 7bfcc732..1ae419a2 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml +++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml @@ -87,11 +87,14 @@ the entire output to appear in a pager message, which will get chopped off after a certain length.</para> + <para>As Nagios does not capture stderr output, you should only output to + STDOUT and not print to STDERR.</para> + <section><title>Print only one line of text</title> <para>Nagios will only grab the first line of text from STDOUT when it notifies contacts about potential problems. If you print - multiple lines, you're out of luck. Remember, keep it short and - to the point.</para> + multiple lines, you're out of luck (though this will be a feature of + Nagios 3). Remember, keep your output short and to the point.</para> <para>Output should be in the format:</para> <literallayout> @@ -139,8 +142,9 @@ <section><title>Screen Output</title> <para>The plug-in should print the diagnostic and just the - synopsis part of the help message. A well written plugin would + usage part of the help message. A well written plugin would then have --help as a way to get the verbose help.</para> + <para>Code and output should try to respect the 80x25 size of a crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para> </section> |