Re: [Mon-devel] mon-client warning and escaping data problems

[David N. <vit...@cm...>]

--On Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:30 PM -0500 Ed Ravin <er...@pa...> 
wrote:

> And the "ACK" command is still misbehaving, but I can see the problem
> is limited to my old mon.cgi - apparently the 'ack' field, instead of just
> being a 1 if the watch was ack'd, is now the ctime of the ack.
>

Oh yeah, I forgot that had changed.  That was done with the intent of 
eventually displaying the timestamp of the ack, and having ack's timeout 
after configurable periods of time.


> So that leaves me with the warning in Mon::Client.  I've figured that out
> too: I only get it when the service description is null AND the Perl
> program calling Mon::Client uses the  "-w" option.  This is a bug.  Here
> is a possible fix:

Ah, the wonder and curse of -w.  It finds certain classes of bugs, and 
actually helps you avoid exercising certain memory leaks in perl, but it 
also whines about many things.

I'll commit that fix.

-David


David Nolan                    <*>                    vit...@cm...
curses: May you be forced to grep the termcap of an unclean yacc while
      a herd of rogue emacs fsck your troff and vgrind your pathalias!