Re: [nv-l] email of trap message contains \"\\\"

bart<bart AT isiskorea DOT com> writes:

> Hi,world~
> 
> I remenber I saw something like this somewhere in this site,but I can't find 
> the solution.
> 
> When I set the event configuration to send the email,
> I send messages something like this
> 
> echo "$hostname" "$MSG "| mailx -r <mail_server> -s "$HOST $MSG"  nmsadmin AT 
> isiskorea DOT com ;;
> 
> the action works well...
> 
> But,when the hostname or messages  contains ip_adress,
> it displays "" infront of the "dot" like this xxx\\.xxx\\.xxx\\.xxx\\.
> 
> How can i eliminate the "" ?

As part of a security fix from a root exploit vulnerability, by
default, when send trap vabinds to external scripts, Netview escapes
- and . with a backslash and replaces all other non-alphanumerics with
  an _.   

See the release notes for your version of NetView for more details and
for sed commands that strips the backslashes out in the external
script. 

Example from a script of mine:


############################################################################
# replace \- \. and \_  with - . and  _  respectvely. Required for
# security efix
############################################################################
TEMP_HOST=$(/usr/bin/echo "$5" | /usr/bin/sed 's:\\\([-\._]\):\1:g')
MESSAGESTRING=$(/usr/bin/echo "$1" | /usr/bin/sed 's:\\\([-\._]\):\1:g')


-- 
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

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