$HOSTNOTESURL$ being mangled (removing '&' char).

[Michael Alger]

Eli Stair wrote:
>
> I'm posting this to -devel after hearing no input from -users since 
> Friday.  I don't see anything obvious in the way HOSTNOTESURL is 
> handled in utils.c, and am out of my league enough to not be able to 
> track it further in the source.  In my tests the URL is always written 
> properly in the "Extra Host Notes" entry in the CGI's, but ampersand 
> is always ignored when expanded in the alert (\& does nothing different).

Check your illegal_macro_output_chars setting in the main Nagios 
configuration file. Since & is a shell metacharacter, it is included in 
the set by default. The example configuration doesn't explicitly mention 
the HOSTNOTESURL macro, but it makes sense it would be applied to 
everything used in the notification commands.


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