[Xymon] Frequent core dumps

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Wed, March 4, 2015 5:39 pm, John Thurston wrote:
> On 3/4/2015 4:31 PM, Colin Coe wrote:
>> Found the problem.  There was a missing closing round bracket ')' on
>> the hosts.cfg line for portal02.
>
> yowser. That's a pretty brutal failure mode for a syntax error in
> hosts.cfg   If you feed that file to xymongrep or xymoncfg, do either of
> them complain of the syntax error?
>
> (I'm just wondering if I should ad a post-edit syntax reality check to
> my workflow.)
> --


Colin, can you forward me a copy of the relevant snippet?

If we died here, it was probably a result of an un-sanity-checked URL
trying to get analyzed for SSL. We can probably add a little more
protection around this.


Regards,

-jc