regular expression matching.

[John R. Daily]

"*" is not a valid regular expression (the docs are wrong, IIRC).

You want ".*", like:

>>         host_name                       .*


-John

On Aug 18, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Christian Hedegaard wrote:

>
>> define serviceescalation{
>>         host_name                       *
>>         service_description             *
>>         first_notification              3
>>         last_notification               0
>>         contact_groups
>> on-duty-pagers,off-duty-pagers,operations-email
>>         notification_interval           30
>>         }
>
>
> Well, the above example DOES NOT WORK. I'm trying very hard to
> understand why. Here are the error(s) that nagios gives:
>
> Error: Could not find any host matching '*'
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service
> escalation
>
> I have plenty of hosts defined, so why wouldn't the regular expression
> "*" match them?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --  
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