Config file error, without error messages

yary not.com at gmail.com
Mon May 19 17:27:04 EDT 2008


This is my last posting (for today), promise.

There are some cases where argus cannot parse the config file, but does not
complain.

For example, this works AOK-

Host "machine.asite.org" {
  Service TCP/DNS
}

On the other hand, Argus will not complain about this, but will act as if
this line and all groups/services following do not exist:

Host "machine.asite.org" { Service TCP/DNS }

I had a number of hosts with a single test that I tried making "look pretty"
by lining them up like the above, took a while to figure out how to fix. The
config docs don't mention that each group, service, and config attribute
needs to be on a line by itself. Would be good to document and for the
config parser to complain (or to allow single line definitions)

thanks

-y


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