Multiple output lines in plugins?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Fabio Lo Votrico wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 19:52, Sean Dilda wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:09, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
>>
>>>Nicole, you can "trick" nagios by putting in "<br>" where you want each 
>>>line to break.  Like this:
>>>Temperatures OK<br>CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius<br>Ambient        26.0 
>>>Celsius<br>BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius
>>>
>>>nsca will see it as one line, and when it renders it in the browser, the 
>>><br> will be a new line.  (<br> is html markup for a line break).
>>
>>If you're doing this, you'll want to make pass all your notifications
>>through a filter to clean that up.  Otherwise you'll get ugly
>>emails/pages.
> 
> 
> I'm doing exactly what Christopher is suggesting, but I don't know
> _where_ to filter the output and translate <br> in \n
> Nagios is stripping "<" and ">" out of it and I'd like to maintain this
> behaviour in general.
> So I need to translate before Nagios do its filtering.
> Is there any way to do this?
> 

No, but it should be trivial to make Nagios replace <br> with '\n' 
before stripping the illegal_macro_output_chars.

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