[Xymon] Downtime syntax check (4.3.17)

[John Thurston]

In the hosts.cfg, DOWNTIME can specify times when bad results should be 
ignored rather than acted on. The syntax documents two forms:

DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime[,day:starttime:endtime]
DOWNTIME=columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause[,columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause]

The first form behaves as expected. The second form does not. When the 
*cause* portion contains more than one word, it must be enclosed in 
double quotes. When this is done, the subsequent portions of the line 
are not interpreted correctly.

For example, this works:
  DOWNTIME=http:60:*:*:"No weekends"

but only the first piece of this works:
  DOWNTIME=http:6:*:*:"No Saturday",http:0:*:*:"No Sunday"

I've tried commas and semicolons as the field delimiters.

Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong, or confirm that they see the 
same behavior?

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
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