Thanks for the note Peter - I'll post a patch to CVS which should fix
this.
Peter Ringe wrote:
> Hi Ethan, hi al,
>
> I think there is a problem in base/utils.c, when comparing the string,
> found in the perl script with
> "+epn" or ".epn" .
>
> There Ehtan has used strcmp
>
>
> if(!strcmp(ptr,"+epn")){
> use_epn=TRUE;
> found_epn_directive=TRUE;
> }
> else if(!strcmp(ptr,"-epn")){
> use_epn=FALSE;
> found_epn_directive=TRUE;
> }
>
> I think (I'm not amn c expert) instead of strcmp, strstr would be better
> due to leading/trailing whitespaces linefeeds in ptr. actually
>
> actually with
>
> # nagios: -epn"
>
> ptr will be " +epn\n", the leading blank as well as the trailing
> linefeed is part of ptr
>
>
>
> regards,
>
> peter
>
>
>
>
> william(at)elan.net schrieb:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Hendrik Baecker wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Ingo,
>>>
>>> Ingo Lantschner schrieb:
>>>
>>>> But to my understanding of the tag "#nagios: -epn" it should disable
>>>> epn for the particular plugin even if use_embedded_perl ist set to 1.
>>>> But unfortunately the output still gets messed up.
>>>>
>>> yes - this should do the trick, but after regarding the docs it should be
>>>
>>> "# nagios: -epn" instead of
>>> "#nagios: -epn"
>>>
>>> There is a blank between '#' and 'n'.
>>>
>> While this is all fine, a simple way (that also works with any 2.x
>> code) based on how nagios decides if it is or not a perl plugin is to
>> just remove the first line "#!/usr/bin/perl" from pliugin and in
>> commands.cfg instead of just specifying plugin name directly add
>> explicit call to /usr/bin/perl, i.e.
>> command_line /usr/bin/perl your_plugin.pl
>>
>>
>
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