Nagios config verify failing with "garbage" characters in output

[Jim Smythe]

That seems to have fixed it.  We are running testing now on our
systems, but so far everything went fine.

One note, however, is that Valgrind still shows 2 issues even after the patch.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Sven-Göran Bergh <sgb at systemasis.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>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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