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Re^2: truncate string to byte count

by morgon (Priest)
on Feb 28, 2019 at 10:02 UTC ( [id://1230660]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: truncate string to byte count
in thread truncate string to byte count

It is not an XY-Problem.

It's the actual problem at hand.

The backgound is a program that implements a (passive) check for a monitoring system where you need to write your message to a pipe but the monitoring system imposes a byte-limit on the message.

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Re^3: truncate string to byte count
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Mar 01, 2019 at 10:03 UTC

    Sounds like it is Nagios. Can‘t you modify the output length of your checks in the database? Regards, Karl

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