Patch to clean illegal characters from some macros

[Ethan Galstad]

The macro patch that's on its way to CVS should handle this.  All 
output and perfdata maros should now be cleaned properly. 


On 4 Feb 2005 at 23:34, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:

> Dear Folks,
> 
> I think Nagios 2.0b1 needs this patch is needed to ensure that illegal
> characters from macros used in notify command do not confuse the shell
> when it comes to execute the macro substitued notify command.
> 
> For example, my employer's Nag checks CGIs that require '&' 
> in the query_strings.
> 
> When such a check fails it usually outputs the failed request - 
> including the '&' characters. 
> 
> If in addition, the quoting of the macros breaks down - because the
> plugin output also contains '"" characters, the notify command will
> fail.
> 
> I am not sure if this isn't better done in the get_macro_ functions,
> but this seems to work for me (in production for about 5 minutes now
> ...)
> 
> Yours sincerely.
> 
> -- 
> Stanley Hopcroft
> 
> IP Australia
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> 



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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