Nagios config verify failing with "garbage" characters in output

[Sven-Göran Bergh]

>
>Från: Jim Smythe <icatchspam at gmail.com>
>Till: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
>Skickat: sön 22 maj 2011 11:26:40
>Ämne: [Nagios-devel] Nagios config verify failing with "garbage" characters in 
>output
>
>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!

Hi,

I recognize the behaviour and it could be the same problem I had.
Try the latest GIT/SVN (whatever) or look at the patch below and
apply it to the clean 3.2.3 version.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26565601

Unfortnately, I do not have commit ID for it.
Hope this will solve your problem.

Brgds
/Sven
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Sven-Göran Bergh, Systemasis AB
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