$HOSTNOTESURL$ being mangled (removing '&' char).
Eli Stair
estair at ilm.com
Tue Feb 28 18:57:01 CET 2006
Thanks for tipping me back to the obvious. It was indeed the illegal
output macro setting stripping that. I've been doing this long enough I
should've remembered to look for something that I wasn't actually
thinking of.
Cheers,
/eli
Michael Alger wrote:
> 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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