On-Demand Macros issue

[Werner Flamme]

Bryan Loniewski schrieb am 25.05.05 17:31:
> To answer my own question..
> 
> After looking through the code, it appears what I want is not possible. The code seems 
> to parse on the ":" and believes what follows it ($ARG1$) to be the hostname which is 
> then passed to a function that looks up other attributes for that hostname in memory.
> 
> Thus, the expansion of $ARG1$ is not possible inside an On-Demand macro.
> 
> Would others find this useful if a patch is applied?

Yes. I am someone, am I ;-)

Will be useful when monitoring virtual hosts (webserver) on one machine or
some similar things...

Regards,
Werner

> 
> _________________________
> Bryan Loniewski
> Rutgers University
> NBCS - Systems Programmer
> 
> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Bryan Loniewski wrote:
> 
> 
>>After traversing through the archives for an answer and coming up short.. has 
>>anyone found it possible to do the following?
>>
>>define command{
>>       command_name    foo
>>#        command_line    $USER2$/foo $HOSTADDRESS:some_host_name$ # WORKS 
>>FINE
>>       command_line    $USER2$/foo $HOSTADDRESS:$ARG1$$ # Where 
>>$ARG1$=some_host_name
>>       }
>>
>>that is, namely having $ARG1$ expanded *first* followed by the whole 
>>On-Demand macro?
>>I've tried all sorts of combo's to get this to work but no luck..
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>_________________________
>>Bryan Loniewski
>>Rutgers University
>>NBCS - Systems Programmer
>>
> 
> 
> 
>

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