This also works:

HOST=* $H SERVICE=conn

So it appears that the parser specifically doesn't like macros referenced at the beginning of a line if they aren't the only thing on the line?

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*Steve Coile*Senior Network and Systems Engineer, McClatchy Interactive <http://www.mcclatchyinteractive.com/> Office: 919-861-1247 | Mobile: 919-622-5369 | Fax: 919-861-1300

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Steve Coile <scoile at mcclatchyinteractive.com

wrote:

Given two different, but trivial alerts.cfg files:

--- file 1 --- $H=HOST=a,b

SERVICE=conn $H

--- file 2 --- $H=HOST=a,b

$H SERVICE=conn

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The first file will match hosts a and b but not c; the second file will match nothing. Take "SERVICE=conn" out of file 2, it then properly matches a and b but not c.

What gives?

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*Steve Coile*Senior Network and Systems Engineer, McClatchy Interactive <http://www.mcclatchyinteractive.com/> Office: 919-861-1247 | Mobile: 919-622-5369 | Fax: 919-861-1300