Nagios config verify failing with "garbage" characters in output

[Ton Voon]

Can you provide a minimal configuration that displays this symptom? We can then reproduce and fix and add to test cases for checking in future too.

Ton

On 22 May 2011, at 22:26, Jim Smythe wrote:

> I am currently running 3.2.3. 
> 
> I have quite a few machines running nagios and all but one are running happily with very similar configs (hosts/services differ from machine to machine, but all other files are identical).
> 
> I get a config check error on one that is very strange.
> 
> #### Snipit of hostgroup config file that doesn't work (identical on all machines)
> define hostgroup {
>     hostgroup_name Consumer Electronics
>     alias Consumer Electronics
> }
> 
> #### running nagios -v ../nagios.cfg get this (please note, the corrupt characters change every time I run the verify process)
> .... lines ommited ....
>         Checked 15 hosts.
> Checking host groups...
> Error: Host 'èð' specified in host group 'Consumer Electronics' is not defined anywhere!
>         Checked 11 host groups.
> .... lines ommited ....
> Total Errors:   1
> 
> #### changing the "C" in consumer electronics to a "c" fixes it (or, from a cursory check, any letters except "A", "B", or "C") - see modified snipit
> define hostgroup {
>     hostgroup_name consumer Electronics
>     alias Consumer Electronics
> }
> 
> ##### config check runs perfectly!!!
> 
> Note: It so happens that this hostgroup is not even in use on this particular machine.  I just have a standard hostgroup config file that gets distributed to all machines. 
> 
> I think this is a bug, but I cannot find any information that shows one already logged, and I don't really know how to confirm exactly what is causing the verify process to believe there is a host with the garbage characters.
> 
> Any suggestions would be great!
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know!
> Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its 
> next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran 
> developers boost performance applications - including clusters. 
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay_______________________________________________
> Nagios-devel mailing list
> Nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-devel

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.monitoring-lists.org/archive/developers/attachments/20110523/5d3f07b5/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know!
Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its 
next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran 
developers boost performance applications - including clusters. 
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Nagios-devel mailing list
Nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-devel