Worked! Thanks <div>On 1/5/06, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> 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:<a href="mailto:neririn@gmail.com">neririn@gmail.com</a>] > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! <a href="http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&opclick">http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&opclick </a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users"> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>