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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear Folks,</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There is a comment in base/checks.c that may be relevant to the probs with embedded Perl in 3.0 betas.</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There was apparently a long standing bug of freeing memory associated with the Perl plugin output _before_</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">it was copied to Nagios.</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The comment says the bug was corrected by a patch sent by Hendrik B. of July this year.</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Nice one Hendrik.</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Yours sincerely.</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="microsoft sans serif">Classification:</FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="microsoft sans serif"></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">UNCLASSIFIED</FONT><BR>
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