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To complicate things. Semicolon comments only work within objects and
not in nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg et all

Just got a big error showing the CGI couldn't read the logfile ".. ;
blabla". But 'nagios -v' gave no error.

Yes Chris, you found a bug or a missing check

Geert

On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 01:04, Geert Vanderkelen wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> You mailed me about this problem in Nagat and I didn't look at it this
> way.
>
> IMHO, ;-comments after a "variable value" in an object is rather useless
> and compromises readability. Although they should be kept intact.
> What I did for Nagat is keeping the layout of the object configuration
> files as much as possible. I just forgot about the semicolon stuff.
> Consider it a feature request
>
> Well it looks natural to me, the commenting I mean.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 23:56, Chris Meador wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What is the official status of using semicolons as comments within block
> > definitions (as per the example template configuration files)? All of
> > the documentation seems to say that hash-comments are the only valid
> > comments... But nagios understands the files with semicolons anyway.
> >
> > # here is an example of a definition block using semicolon comments
> > define host {
> > use generic-host ;Name of host
> > template to use
> > ;questionable comment
> > host_name localhost
> > alias localhost
> > address 127.0.0.1
> > }
> >
> > regards
> > Chris
> >
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