Using regex host matches in service definition s

[Andreas Ericsson]

Tedman Eng wrote:
>>-----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."
> 

But what's "standard" matching in a section about regular expressions? 
It seems a bit unclear, and the syntax in the example doesn't work (no 
fnmatch(3) matching is done anywhere in Nagios).

I suppose I could hack up some glob()-like wildcard support, but it 
seems a waste when regex-matching is already in.

> <examples>
> host_name      *
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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