Problem sending passive results using NSCA with multi-line output

[Esteban Monge]

> * Tech Support <support at voipbusiness.us> [2013-02-13 11:58]:
>> foreach my $service ( @services ) {
>>
>>     <Blah, Blah, Blah, do some stuff>
>>
>>     $nsca_cmd .= "$nscahost\t$service\t$code\t$output";
>>
>> };
>>
>> my $retval = `$system /bin/echo -e "$nsca_cmd" | $nscaprog -H
>> $nagioshost -c
>> $nscacfg`;
>>
>> Like I said, Nagios is choking when the output contains multi-line
>> output.
>
> This looks like you're using a send_nsca version < 2.9, where multiple
> check results were seperated using newlines.  In that case, you'll have
> to replace each newline character within multi-line output with the
> literal string '\n'.
>
> With NSCA >= 2.9, multiple check results are seperated using ASCII ETB
> characters (octal value: 27) instead of newlines, and multi-line output
> can be piped into send_nsca as-is.  (Actually, converting the newline
> characters into '\n' will no longer work with NSCA >= 2.9.)
>
> Holger
>
>
I have one situation with both versions:
NSCA < 2.9 in clients and NSCA > 2.9 in server.

Can send passive checks with "\n" for newline?

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