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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Michael,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Perhaps you are thinking “glob” patterns, like the ones used with directory listings. Regular expressions are different. “*” doesn’t mean any sequence of characters, but zero
or more of the preceding character. Google “regular expressions”. Xymon uses perl-style regular expressions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Coile<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:58<br>
<b>To:</b> Michael Resnick<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Possible regex issue xymon 4.3.11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's you. The "s*" in your regular expression matches zero or more "s" at that location. The hostname you give contains zero "s" at that point, which matches the expression.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Steve Coile<br>
</b>Senior Network and Systems Engineer, <a href="http://www.mcclatchyinteractive.com/" target="_blank">McClatchy Interactive</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Michael Resnick via Xymon <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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From: Michael Resnick <<a href="mailto:sys1002@yahoo.com">sys1002@yahoo.com</a>><br>
To: "<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br>
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:20:31 +0000 (UTC)<br>
Subject: Possible regex issue xymon 4.3.11<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I have the following in alerts.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">HOST=%sciv2-ws*
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The problem is that it is picking up a host called<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">sciv2-wdl2-hqd01</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Is it me or the regex ?</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Has this been fixed in newer versions ?</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks !</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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