Wildcard Host Negation

[jeff vier]

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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 11:30 -0500, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
> I just tried this
> 
> define service{
>         use     generic-ping
>         host_name       *,!checkpoint2,!google
> }
> 
> and I got an error:
> 
> Reading configuration data...
> 
> Error: Could not find host '*'
> 
> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service (config fi\
> le '/etc/nagios/services.cfg', line 176)
> 
> Do you have any advice?

Do you have use_regexp_matching turned on?
Do you have use_true_regexp_matching turned off?

(if not, make those adjustments and try it again)

Are you using Nagios v2.x?
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