Using regex host matches in service definition s

[Tedman Eng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominic J. Eidson [mailto:deidson at seton.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:11 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using regex host matches in service
> definitions
> 

> Yes, I'm familiar with the difference between regex and 
> globbing. As you 
> can see above, though - the documentation has an incorrect 
> example, and 
> that was what I was going by.
> 
> I tried your ^.*$ - and it works like a charm.
> 
> It would be worth for someone to fix the docs, though.... ;)
> 


The docs are not worded wrong (perhaps not completely intuitive, but not
wrong).  
Re-read the first statement in that section:

"Regular Expression Matching 
---------------------------
The examples I give below use "standard" matching of object names."

<examples>
host_name      *



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