[munin-users] family == manual && autoconf?

[<lu...@lu...>]

Hi!

I'm testing the various plugins in 1.1.7 on FreeBSD, and I'm wondering
what autoconf means for a manual plugin. Some of those plugins have
autoconf == yes, some don't even though they require no manual
intervention:

Plugin                     | Used | Suggestions                            
------                     | ---- | -----------                            
ircu                       | no   | [Net::IRC not found]                   
loggrep                    | no   |                                        
multips                    | no   | yes                                    
munin_graph                | no   |                                        
munin_update               | no   |                                        
ntp_states                 | no   | yes                                    
ping_                      | no   |                                        
psu_                       | no   |                                        
squid_icp                  | no   | [could not connect: Connection refused]
sybase_space               | no   |                                        
uptime                     | no   | yes                                    

While multips is useless without a config, munin_graph and munin_update
can be used out of the box. I believe autoconf should by yes if all
requirements are there to use the plugin. If this is OK with this list,
I will submit a patch to support it. This would make the following
plugins return yes: loggrep munin_graph munin_update. The sybase_space
plugin would check if it can be used and return yes in that case.

Of course the same should apply to the contrib plugins.

Lupe Christoph
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