Custom Object Variables: Contrary to docs, /* custom variable values get cleaned */

[Ethan Galstad]

Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists) wrote:
> I'm trying to use special chars in "Custom Object Variables" or "Custom 
> Variable Macros" - the same concept as I under stand it.
> 
> That doesn't work. Because they are subjected to "Macro Cleansing" 
> according to "illegal_macro_output_chars" from nagios.cfg.
> 
> The doc page "Understanding Macros and How They Work"[1] gives a list of 
> macros to which "Macro Cleansing" is applied, and no custom macros are 
> mentioned. "Cleansing" is also not metioned on the "Custom Object 
> Variables"[2] page.
> 1: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macros.html
> 2: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/customobjectvars.html

Hi Peter -

Thanks for pointing this discrepancy out. Custom macros should be
cleaned IMO, so I opted to update the docs instead. :-)

-- 
Ethan Galstad
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