Nagios-1.1 config file parsing bug

Stefano Coletta creator at mindcreations.com
Fri Sep 26 12:38:34 CEST 2003


In the while you can substitute spaces with underscores while creating 
configuration file (just patch your script that imports configuration 
from DB).

Hope to be of help.

-- 
Stefano Coletta

http://www.mindcreations.com



Florian.Kirchmeir at infineon.com wrote:

>Well, thanks. ;-)
>
>Unfortunately, the configuration file is auto-generated from a database; the
>object-names used are not under my control.
>Names with blanks have been no problem with the old, "default" configuration
>system, so I consider this new restriction a bug.
>Also, blanks don't show up in the list of restricted characters in
>nagios.cfg...
>
>Anyone that can come up with a fix?
>
>Regards,
>Florian Kirchmeir
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stefano Coletta [mailto:creator at mindcreations.com] 
>Sent: Donnerstag, 25. September 2003 17:37
>To: Florian.Kirchmeir at infineon.com
>Cc: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios-1.1 config file parsing bug
>
>
>Do not use spaces for object names and your problem will vanish :)
>
>Florian.Kirchmeir at infineon.com wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi all!
>>
>>I noticed a problem with the config file parsing code in Nagios 1.1, 
>>when using the new (template-based) format: Blanks in various object 
>>names (hosts, contact-groups, ...) are not handled correctly when they 
>>appear in a list.
>>Example: with a service definition like this:
>>
>>define service{
>>       use                          my_template
>>       host_name                host a,host b,host c
>>       service_description    Connectivity Check
>>       check_command       check_ping
>>       }
>>
>>Nagios will complain that host "host" is undefined, instead of looking 
>>up "host a".
>>
>>Can anyone please make a patch available? Thanks!
>>
>>Regards,
>>Florian Kirchmeir
>>
>>
>>
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