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Frequent core dumps

list Japheth Cleaver
Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:43:27 -0800
Message-Id: <user-0506c63aeee0@xymon.invalid>


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