check_host: Allocate a large-enough buffer for the host table.

[nagiosplug.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5f305b96696dcb97e7e6f4e6334024373cfe2f88..b06d5b5d8ced7714fd507c0f617e3ffbcb1e3a04 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Nagios Plugins README
   see below. In addition, generic instructions for the GNU toolchain
   can be found in the INSTALL file.
 
-* For major changes between releases, read the CHANGES file.
+* For major changes between releases, read the NEWS file.
 
 * For information on detailed changes that have been made or plugins 
   that have been added, read the Changelog file.
@@ -60,15 +60,11 @@ Nagios Plugins Quick-and-Dirty Installation Instructions
 
 1) Run the configure script to initialize variables and create a Makefile, etc.
 
-       ./configure --prefix=BASEDIRECTORY --with-nagios-user=SOMEUSER --with-nagios-group=SOMEGROUP --with-cgiurl=SOMEURL
+       ./configure --prefix=BASEDIRECTORY --with-cgiurl=SOMEURL
 
    a) Replace BASEDIRECTORY with the path of the directory under which Nagios
       is installed (default is '/usr/local/nagios')
-   b) Replace SOMEUSER with the name of a user on your system that will be
-      assigned permissions to the installed plugins (default is 'nagios')
-   c) Replace SOMEGRP with the name of a group on your system that will be
-      assigned permissions to the installed plugins (default is 'nagios')
-   d) Replace CGIURL with the path used to access the Nagios CGIs with
+   b) Replace CGIURL with the path used to access the Nagios CGIs with
       a web browser (default is '/nagios/cgi-bin')
 
 
@@ -85,17 +81,30 @@ Nagios Plugins Quick-and-Dirty Installation Instructions
    'libexec/' subdirectory in the base directory you specified with
    the --prefix argument to the configure script.
 
+4) There are some plugins that require setuid. If you run make install as 
+   a non root user, they will not be installed. To install, switch to root and 
+   run:
 
-4) Verify that your host configuration file (hosts.cfg) for Nagios contains
+       make install-root
+
+5) Verify that your host configuration file (hosts.cfg) for Nagios contains
    the correct paths to the new plugins.
 
 
 
-That's it.  If you have any problems or questions, feel free send mail
+That's it! If you have any problems or questions, feel free send mail
 to nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net
 
 
 
+LICENSE STUFF
+-------------
+
+This software is released under the GNU Public License with the additional
+exemption that compiling, linking and/or using OpenSSL is allowed.
+
+See the COPYING file for the complete GPL text. 
+
 
 --
-Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop@users.sourceforge.net)
+Nagios Plugins Team