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<DIV>> Well, no. This is not illogical, just not familiar to you, that's all. We're not dealing with a shell script, but a highly-specific configuration file. </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I agree, it is logical (in its own twisted way ;-). I assume the whole parameter is grabbed as a block and parsed afterwards. I remember some unusual parsing with big brother because of it operating out of the shell environment, perhaps this has grown out of that.... </DIV>
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<DIV>> The quoting is consistent across Xymon configuration files.</DIV>
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<DIV>Well not in this case, eg in analysis.cfg: </DIV>
<DIV> DISK "/yada bing bong" 90 95</DIV>
<DIV>it isn't "DISK /yada bing bong". Same in hosts.cfg: </DIV>
<DIV> 0.0.0.0 whatever.com.au # NAME:"What Ever" </DIV>
<DIV>not: "NAME:What Ever". </DIV>
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<DIV>thanks for your help and your work with xymon. It is a great system.</DIV>
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<DIV>cheers, Phil</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>On 6 March 2013 11:04, Phil Crooker <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:Phil.Crooker@orix.com.au" target=_blank>Phil.Crooker@orix.com.au</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks, it does work on ignore statements with regular expressions but not with simple strings:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Tahoma, sans-serif">LOG eventlog_application %^warning COLOR=yellow "IGNORE=No externals have been specified"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I would have thought both of these would work. Might be a bug.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" face="Tahoma, sans-serif">If I escape the spaces or if I add the %, it works.</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Well that's something.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" face="Tahoma, sans-serif"></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,sans-serif">But still, this is not logical - quotes are normally after the equal sign </SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Well, no. This is not illogical, just not familiar to you, that's all. We're not dealing with a shell script, but a highly-specific configuration file. The quoting is consistent across Xymon configuration files.</DIV>
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<DIV>But the fact that the quoted string with spaces doesn't match is probably a bug.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,sans-serif">and of course it shouldn't be necessary to make this into a regex when it isn't.</SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>That's true.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers</DIV>
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