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<div>Top post here :) <br>
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Is it matching an 's', or is it just matching all tests defined in the config?<br>
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>>>> 2012-11-16 10:25:34 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable <<<<<br>
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2012-11-16 10:25:34 Using default environment file /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF821092"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> xymon-bounces@xymon.com [xymon-bounces@xymon.com] on behalf of Jeremy Laidman [jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 15, 2012 4:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gore, David W (David)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] xymondboard - can I get an exact match? (and writing xymon ACK script and opening tickets)<br>
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<div>On 16 November 2012 02:30, Gore, David W (David) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.gore@verizon.com" target="_blank">david.gore@verizon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">Sorry for the top posting, that is dictated by the company.</span></p>
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<div>and now seems to be the default on the interwebs. :-(</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Here is a sample that works:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">~/server/bin/xymon localhost 'xymondboard test=s$ host=(abc|xyz)myhost01'</span></p>
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<div>Seems odd indeed! I'm also running version 4.3.10. Regular expressions (PCRE) aren't generally broken for me, but seems to be just this one thing. I can tie to the start of a string with a caret (^) but not to the end of a string with a dollar ($) -
and this applies to both hostname and testname. I'm on SLESv10, 64 bit, using PCRE v6.4. Oddly, pcregrep doesn't have the same symptoms.</div>
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<div>Here's an example, matching tests that ends with 's', much like yours:</div>
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<div>~$ xymoncmd xymon localhost 'xymondboard test=s$ fields=testname'|head</div>
<div>2012-11-16 10:25:34 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable</div>
<div>2012-11-16 10:25:34 Using default environment file /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg</div>
<div>trends</div>
<div>ntpsync</div>
<div>files</div>
<div>msgs</div>
<div>ports</div>
<div>procs</div>
<div>disk</div>
<div>ssh</div>
<div>dns</div>
<div>trends</div>
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<div>This is obviously broken: it is matching an "s" anywhere, as if the "$" is missing. Yet pcregrep works with the same search string:</div>
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<div>$ printf "trends\nntpsync\nfiles\ncpu\n" | pcregrep 's$'</div>
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<div>Using "\z" instead of "$" works.</div>
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<div>Matching start of test/host with "^" works correctly.</div>
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<div>I'm willing to accept that my build is somehow broken, but have no idea what to look for. It's not actually affecting me, and if it did, using "\z" is a perfectly acceptable work-around.</div>
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<div>Regardless of my difficulties, Betsy, I'm hoping you managed to get the output you were looking for?</div>
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