[1.6] Patch for zabbix_sender

[NOB]

Hi

the zabbix_sender insists on putting the IP-Adress (or hostname)
of the ZABBIX Server on the commandline (-z "zabbix server").
IMO the change is not required and therefore it's a bug and breaks most of
my old scripts using zabbix_sender. I think that it will break most
scripts of other users as well.

Here is the patch to get the old behaviour back. The zabbix_sender
will still work well. If no ZABBIX server is specified, i.e. neither
on the command-line nor in the agent configuration
file (possibly missing on the commandline), the zabbix_sender will still
complain.

However, it seems that the format of the input file (-i file) did
change, too.
Now the lines just contain hostname key value

Regards

Norbert.

[NOB]

Hi

is there a reason for not applying this patch to zabbix_sender ?

Version 1.6.2 has still the same bug.

This is annyoing, at least.

There is absolutely no reason why a script should know the currently
configured ZABBIX Server, i. e. parse the zabbix_agentd.conf file
to figure out the ZABBIX Server just to put it on the commandline !

My proposal - and we'll patch the sender in any case - allows
to just use

zabbix_sender -c configfile ...

without knowing or the need to figure out the ZABBIX Server IP !

Regards

Norbert.