Copyright information for patches

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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" >
<book>
<title>Nagios Plug-in Developer Guidelines</title>
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</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>0</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>0</para></entry>
<entry><para>Single line, minimal output. Summary</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>1</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>1</para></entry>
<entry><para>Single line, additional information (eg list processes that fail)</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>2</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>2</para></entry>
<entry><para>Multi line, configuration debug output (eg ps command used)</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>3</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
<entry><para>Lots of detail for plugin problem diagnosis</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
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</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>0</para></entry>
<entry valign=middle><para>OK</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>0</para></entry>
<entry valign="middle"><para>OK</para></entry>
<entry><para>The plugin was able to check the service and it
appeared to be functioning properly</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>1</para></entry>
<entry valign=middle><para>Warning</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>1</para></entry>
<entry valign="middle"><para>Warning</para></entry>
<entry><para>The plugin was able to check the service, but it
appeared to be above some "warning" threshold or did not appear
to be working properly</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>2</para></entry>
<entry valign=middle><para>Critical</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>2</para></entry>
<entry valign="middle"><para>Critical</para></entry>
<entry><para>The plugin detected that either the service was not
running or it was above some "critical" threshold</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align=center><para>3</para></entry>
<entry valign=middle><para>Unknown</para></entry>
<entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
<entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry>
<entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the
plugin or the plugin was unable to check the status of the given
hosts/service</para></entry>
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<para>Notes:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>start < end</para>
<listitem><para>start &gt; end></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>start and ":" is not required if start=0</para>
</listitem>
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variable values will still be in effect.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Do not use < DATA > (these simply do not compile under ePN).</para>
<listitem><para>Do not use &gt; DATA &lt; (these simply do not compile under ePN).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Do not use named subroutines</para>
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<listitem><para>If writing to a file (perhaps recording
performance data) explicitly close close it. The plugin never
calls <emphasis role=strong>exit</emphasis>; that is caught by
calls <emphasis role="strong">exit</emphasis>; that is caught by
p1.pl, so output streams are never closed.</para>
</listitem>
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<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29880&amp;atid=397599">SourceForge's
tracker system for Nagiosplug patches</ulink>
and be announced to the nagiosplug-devel mailing list.</para>
<para>Submission of a patch implies that the submmitter acknowledges that they
are the author of the code (or have permission from the author to release the code)
and agree that the code can be released under the GPL. The copyright for the changes will
then revert to the Nagios Plugin Development Team - this is required so that any copyright
infringements can be investigated quickly without contacting a huge list of copyright holders.
Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para>
</section>
<section id="New_plugins"><title>New plugins</title>