send_nsca: consider adding --quiet option

[sebastic]

As reported by Timo Juhani Lindfors in Debian Bug #605469

When I use send_nsca from cronjobs like

#!/bin/sh
set -e
dumpdir=/data/mysqldump
dumper="mysqldump --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf -h localhost -u debian-sys-maint"
$dumper tau TauDatabase tau_measure > $dumpdir/tau.dump
...
...
report="$(find $dumpdir/*.dump -printf "%f %s, ")"
printf "data\tbackup-mysqldump\t0\t$report\n" | /usr/sbin/send_nsca -H nagios | grep -v "sent to host successfully."

it is really annoying that I need to use the grep to suppress output that is printed when everything goes as requested.

Please consider the attached patch. It adds a --quiet option that does not print "sent to host successfully" if at least one result was sent.

(There is only long option since I figured plain "-q" might collide with something that upstream might add in the future.)

send_nsca_document_quiet1.patch.txt
send_nsca_quiet_flag1.patch.txt

[jfrickson]

Sounds like a good idea. Looking into it.

[xavierba]

I made #38 out of this.

[xavierba]

#38 was merged so this bug report can be closed as fixed.

[sawolf]

Thanks for the reminder.