strange behaviour when plugin output is containing the string "\n" in Nagios 3.0rc1

[Ethan Galstad]

Marcus Hildenbrand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if a plugin is containing the string "\n" in its output I found some strange 
> output in status_file. For example if the output of the plugin looks like this:
> 
> # some_plugin
> test\ntmon\test\abc
> # echo $?
> 0
> #
> 
> the status_file for this service is containing lines like this:
> 
> servicestatus {
> ...
> ...
>          plugin_output=test\
>          long_plugin_output=tmon\\\\test\\\\abc\n
> ...
> ...
> 	}
> 
> Also the trailing \ in plugin_output line sometimes seems to confuse the CGI's 
> in a way that they are dumping:
> 
> # setenv REQUEST_METHOD POST
> # setenv CONTENT_LENGTH 4
> # echo all | ./tac.cgi
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> Is this a bug in Nagios or is it not allowed that the plugin output contains \n?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> Marcus
> 

Thanks for the report Marcus!  There was a bug in the newline/backslash
escape logic.  I'm posting a fix to CVS in a few moments...


Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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