[op5-users] Merlin typo's? Where to report?

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 01/13/2010 12:13 PM, Mr Gabriel wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I followed the following guide, on a fresh CentOS 5.4 box.
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html
> 
> and managed to get nagios up and running so much faster than I ever have
> before. I didn't create any hosts, just got the system up and running. I
> then followed the instructions here,
> 
> https://wiki.op5.org/merlin:docs:quickstart-centos5
> 
> to install merlin
> 
> Two things - the link needs to be updated (I downloaded merlin-0.6.6),
> and when I restarted nagios, I got the message on screen saying "Merlin
> module v0.6.5-beta initialized successfully done."
> 
> 0.6.5beta? I hope that's a typo!
> 

It is. It's caused by the tarball-building script not updating the
version string from the tag in git. It's been that way for a while
now, but what with christmas and new-years and all we haven't made
it a priority to fix.

Thanks for reporting it though :)

> I'm not 100% sure where to report these things, so I hope that by saying
> them on the list, action may be taken to correct them.
> 

This list is the right place to report things. Thanks again for
taking the time to do so.

> (Feel free to send paypal donations to my email address! just kidding)
> 
> I must say that for my first install, I think it took me a total of 30
> mins, from begining to end, (including installation), to get Centos up
> and running in a xen environment, install nagios configure, and also
> install merlin? That's very good. Thanks guys for all the good work.
> 

You're welcome. Thanks for all the praise :)

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