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-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Simon Kitching
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] patch: nrpe fails to start when config file includes whitespace-only line
> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:02:33 +1300
>
> Hi,
>
> If nrpe's config file should include a line containing only whitespace,
> then it will fail to start. I found this rather tricky to diagnose!
>
> To demonstrate bug:
> nrpe -d -c {config-file}
> then
> ps -efl | grep nrpe
>
> For a config file containing " \n", nrpe will fail to start.
>
> So attached is a simple patch to ignore all whitespace on the start of
> any line in the config file. Note that this means that " x=foo" and "
> # a comment" will now be regarded as valid rather than invalid as was
> previously done (leading whitespace is just ignored).
>
> The patch is in conventional "universal diff" format.

And that should of course be "unified diff".

Regards,

Simon






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