BUG? exclude hosts with regexp not working

[Jelle Smet]

Hi List,

Can someone tell if this is intended behaviour or a bug?

I have following features in my nagios.cfg file:
use_regexp_matching=1
use_true_regexp_matching=0


Although I can apply a service to a group of servers based upon their name using:
hosts                        redhat_servers*                      


I can't exclude hosts based upon their name using:
hosts                        !redhat_servers*

Nagios complains that it can't find host '!redhat_servers*'


something like this would work though
hosts                        !redhat_servers01,!redhat_servers02,!redhat_servers03,!redhat_servers04,!redhat_servers05,!redhat_servers06



That's not really consistent not?


-- 
Jelle Smet
http://www.smetj.net

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