Bug: NSCA 2.4 on OS X 10.3

[Noah Leaman]

Thanks for pointing that out Stanley. I am thinking of replace echo  
with printf for the reason you've mentioned. The usage of echo was is  
from copying the send_nsca shell script from the doc on distributed  
monitoring (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/distributed.html).

--  
noah


On Jan 27, 2004, at 11:45 PM, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:

> Dear Sir,
>
> You and others have done all the hard work in this matter,
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:59:38PM -0800, Noah Leaman wrote:
>> Yes. Look at that. It appears /bin/echo on OSX doesn't support -e ...
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/
>> html/echo.1.html
>>
>> So I took the -e out... but still the same problem.  BUT... now  
>> knowing
>> that the \t characters were probably getting interrupted. I changed  
>> the
>> default delimiter to ";" and BINGO:
>>
>
> but it may be helpful for the NSCA developers to know whether you could
> have replaced echo -e with printf.
>
> OS-X is IIRC FreeBSD derived.
>
> The FreeBSD 4.x man pages for printf include
> '
> STANDARDS
>      The printf command is expected to be compatible with the IEEE Std
> 1003.2
>      (``POSIX.2'') specification.
> '
>
> so since printf is POSIX compliant, if one possibly can, printf is a
> better choice than echo.
>
> printf does 'escape sequence interpolation' so
>
> stan> printf "\t\tIn the beginning was the W\bWO\b\OR\bRD\bD.\n\n\n"
>                 In the beginning was the WORD.
>
>
> stan>
>
> works as you expect
>
>
>>
>> --  
>> noah
>>
>
> Yours sincerely.
>
> --  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -
> Stanley Hopcroft
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -
>
> '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
> continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
> Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
> manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
> me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
> for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'
>
> from Meditation 17, J Donne.



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