-epn seems not work in 3.x

[Ethan Galstad]

Thanks for the note Peter - I'll post a patch to CVS which should fix 
this.

Peter Ringe wrote:
> Hi Ethan, hi al,
> 
> I think there is a problem in base/utils.c, when comparing the string, 
> found in the perl script with
> "+epn" or ".epn" .
> 
> There Ehtan has used strcmp
> 
> 
>                                 if(!strcmp(ptr,"+epn")){
>                                     use_epn=TRUE;
>                                     found_epn_directive=TRUE;
>                                     }
>                                 else if(!strcmp(ptr,"-epn")){
>                                     use_epn=FALSE;
>                                     found_epn_directive=TRUE;
>                                     }
> 
> I think (I'm not amn c expert) instead of strcmp, strstr would be better
> due to leading/trailing whitespaces linefeeds in ptr. actually
> 
> actually with 
> 
> # nagios: -epn"
> 
> ptr will be " +epn\n", the leading blank as well as the trailing 
> linefeed is part of ptr
> 
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> peter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> william(at)elan.net schrieb:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Hendrik Baecker wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi Ingo,
>>>
>>> Ingo Lantschner schrieb:
>>>     
>>>> But to my understanding of the tag "#nagios: -epn" it should disable
>>>> epn for the particular plugin even if use_embedded_perl ist set to 1.
>>>> But unfortunately the output still gets messed up.
>>>>       
>>> yes - this should do the trick, but after regarding the docs it should be
>>>
>>> "# nagios: -epn" instead of
>>> "#nagios: -epn"
>>>
>>> There is a blank between '#' and 'n'.
>>>     
>> While this is all fine, a simple way (that also works with any 2.x 
>> code) based on how nagios decides if it is or not a perl plugin is to 
>> just remove the first line "#!/usr/bin/perl" from pliugin and in 
>> commands.cfg instead of just specifying plugin name directly add
>> explicit call to /usr/bin/perl, i.e.
>>   command_line /usr/bin/perl your_plugin.pl
>>
>>   
> 
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