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list Colin Coe
Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:47:05 +0800
Message-Id: <user-003c72475e7f@xymon.invalid>

Replied direct with hosts.cfg entries.

Thanks

CC

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:43 AM, J.C. Cleaver <user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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