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Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists) wrote:
> I'm trying to use special chars in "Custom Object Variables" or "Custom
> Variable Macros" - the same concept as I under stand it.
>
> That doesn't work. Because they are subjected to "Macro Cleansing"
> according to "illegal_macro_output_chars" from nagios.cfg.
>
> The doc page "Understanding Macros and How They Work"[1] gives a list of
> macros to which "Macro Cleansing" is applied, and no custom macros are
> mentioned. "Cleansing" is also not metioned on the "Custom Object
> Variables"[2] page.
> 1: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macros.html
> 2: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tvars.html

Hi Peter -

Thanks for pointing this discrepancy out. Custom macros should be
cleaned IMO, so I opted to update the docs instead.

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Ethan Galstad
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