bigger.cfg

[Rene Nelson]

Worked!  Thanks

On 1/5/06, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> Please always respond on list so that others may benefit from your
> experience.
>
> [moving top-post to inline comment]
>
>
> >> On 1/5/06, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> [chop]
>
> >>
> >>      It sounds like you've got a typo or other issue that's throwing
> the
> >>      parser off (missing close bracket, file edited under windows and
> >>      includes special control characters, etc). How many objects
> >>      (approximately) do you have?
> >>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rene Nelson [mailto:neririn at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:35 PM
> > To: Marc Powell
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] bigger.cfg
> >
> > Aproximately 100 objects.  I did compile the .cfg in wordpad for the
> ease
> > of cut and paste.  Is there a way I can parse the file for invalid
> chars
> > and remove?
> >
>
> Wordpad + unix == bad unless you specifically save as plain text. Either
> use notepad, vi, or some other text editor that works with plain text
> natively ;)
>
> Try opening the file in notepad, re-formatting the text if necessary and
> re-saving it. That's probably the simplest way if you're not able to
> start from scratch again.
>
> If you have the original files you could always just cat them together
> from the unix command line with 'cat file1.cfg file2.cfg file3.cfg >
> my_new.cfg'. then use vi or pico to edit it there.
>
> --
> Marc Powell
>
>
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