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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Nagios 2.0b4 On Linux.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am trying to use hostescalations. Using a wildcard. It doesn't like it. Any idea why?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have the following. (with line numbers)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 9 define hostescalation{</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 10 host_name *</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 11 contact_groups sysops-helpdesk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 12 first_notification 2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 13 last_notification 2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 14 notification_interval 30 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 15 }</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I run nagios -v I get the following..</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># ./nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc_new/nagios-new.cfg </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Nagios 2.0b4</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ethan Galstad (</FONT><A HREF="http://www.nagios.org"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.nagios.org</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Last Modified: 08-02-2005</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">License: GPL</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reading configuration data...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Error: Could not find any host matching '*'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in host escalation (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc_new/host-escalations.cfg', starting on line 9)</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In my nagios config </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">use_regexp_matching=1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">use_true_regexp_matching=0</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-Andrew</FONT>
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