[Nagiosplug-devel] send_nsca

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 01/18/2011 10:05 AM, Joram Agten wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 1.
> I had a problem with send_nsca and the delimiter character.
> I supplied -d ';' and then it took ' as delimiter.
> but there was no warning that I supplied more than one character.
> 
> small possible improvement to the code (around line 480 in send_nsca.c)
> 
> /* delimiter to use when parsing input */
> else if(!strcmp(argv[x-1],"-d")){
> if(x<argc){
> if(strlen(argv[x])>  strlen(delimiter)) {
>      printf("only %d delimiter character(s) allowed, got %d, '%s'\n",
> strlen(delimiter), strlen(argv[x]), argv[x]);
>      return ERROR;
> }
> snprintf(delimiter,sizeof(delimiter),"%s",argv[x]);
> delimiter[sizeof(delimiter)-1]='\x0';
> #ifdef DEBUG
>               printf("delimiter='%s'\n",delimiter);
> #endif
> x++;
> }
> else{
> return ERROR;
> }
> }
> 

I'd suggest you find the send_nsca maintainer (Ethan) and send a
proper patch to him, with nagios-devel at users.lists.sourcefourg.net
on Cc.

> 2. Is it possible to send multi line passive service checks?
> 

AFAIK: No.

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