[collectd] FR: SysV-style collectd.conf? (was: insecure tmpfile creation in collection.cgi)

[Florian Forster]

Hi Michael,

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 02:42:01PM -0500, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> May I respectfully suggest that this be modified to instead support
> the action of:
> include "/etc/collectd.d/*.conf"
> and allow us to contend with the recursive function?
> 
> This way I can have a "README" and/or a "conf.skel" in the directory
> and know they're not going to be read.

I've thought about only parsing files that end with `.conf', but then
decided against it. Having shell like matching would be a nice feature,
of course. Using wordexp(3) this should be relatively easy, too. I'll
see what I can do.

Regards,
-octo
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