Length of service information

[Andreas Ericsson]

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DeppDepp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a short question: In Nagios 1.2, the service information must not
> be longer than about 500-700 characters, or else the status will always
> be "OK". Furthermore, the service information is cut if it is longer
> than about 320 characters.
> 
> So I wonder if this will be fixed in Nagios 2.0 - or if there is even a
> fix for Nagios 1.2 (well, don't think so, after I searched so much).
> 

This is fixed by design in Nagios 2.0. Note however that no command 
passed to the shell can exceed 4096 bytes, so with extremely long 
service-description fields you'll run in to other problems.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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