[Xymon] xymon communications program (server/bin/xymon) reading from stdin - first line only?

[Ribeiro, Glauber]

It's backward of that: the string in the command line worked (I didn't have to double-quote it because I wasn't running xymon from the shell, but from a Unix "system" call, via perl). When I tried the same string being fed via STDIN (passing - in the command line), it got processed up to the first newline. I also tried the --merge parameter (sending the first line in the commandline and the rest via stdin), but that errored out.

It's not a big problem - I just reverted to using the command line. Only rarely there is so much data that it exceeds the command line limits. Actually this was the first time i saw this happen, in years.

g

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 11:26
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon communications program (server/bin/xymon) reading from stdin - first line only?

I suspect you need to double-quote the final string. Without that, I 
suspect the xymon command is only reading everything up to the first 
line feed.

Can you provide an explicit example? ie "This worked...this didn't"

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

On 3/29/2018 9:03 AM, Ribeiro, Glauber wrote:
> Recently I tried to modify one of my xymon extension scripts, which 
> passes the message data to the xymon command on the command line, to 
> pass it via STDIN instead.
> 
> It worked (sort of), but I was not able to get xymon to process more 
> than the first line of the message (the one with color, status, 
> timestamp). The rest of the message seemed to be ignored.
> 
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