Nagios chops error text after ~430 chars

[Subhendu Ghosh]

One list please..

As noted in the source...

common/objects.h:#define MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH 352 /* max. length of plugin output */


This is due to the limation of max size of a non-interleaved write to a 
pipe on linux.

-sg

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> hi
> 
> When I try sending the following error (1) (clipped from the event log), it 
> cuts it off, leaving only the this (2) left. The clipped text is then used in 
> the notification.
> 
> any chance of getting the full text?
> 
> I've tried several times, and it looks like there's a low buffer somehow. How 
> can I change this? I _need_ long logs.
> 
> roy
> 
> 
> 1
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [25-04-2003 14:00:37] EXTERNAL COMMAND: 
> PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;display01;CP_FLYTOGET_LODALEN;1;Not ready yet. 
> But might be. Don't know. Might be ok. Might be broken. Unable to tell. It's 
> just Windows.  Or unix. OS/2? I don't know. Total confusion. As if in a 
> relation to Confuctus. I might be wrong, but is this a nagios error report? 
> Possibly. But more likely, I'd say it's closer to a rather bored sysadmin 
> write a long passive check text to nagios to see if Nagios has stopped 
> chopping them off in mid sentence. Ok. That's all folks.
> 
> 2
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Not ready yet. But might be. Don't know. Might be ok. Might be broken. Unable 
> to tell. It's just Windows. Or unix. OS/2? I don't know. Total confusion. As 
> if in a relation to Confuctus. I might be wrong, but is this a nagios error 
> report? Possibly. But more likely, I'd say it's closer to a rather bored 
> sysadmin write a long passive check text to na 
> 
> 

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