[mrtg] Bug? </TD></TR> without a space at the beginning

[Jakub M]

I should add, that I have moved </TD></TR> tags to a new line (if it
is not obvious)

2008/11/20 Jakub M <burakozol at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> a small change in a template did the things work as for now:
>
> PageTop[$target_name]: <H1>$router_name Ping</H1>
>  <TABLE>
>    <TR><TD>System:</TD><TD>$router_name in
> $html_syslocation</TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD><TD>$html_syscontact</TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD VALIGN="top">Description:</TD><TD>$html_sysdescr</TD></TR>
>  </TABLE>
>
> PageTop[$target_name]: <H1>$router_name Ping</H1>
>  <TABLE>
>    <TR><TD>System:</TD><TD>$router_name in
> $html_syslocation</TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD><TD>$html_syscontact</TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD VALIGN="top">Description:</TD><TD>$html_sysdescr
>    </TD></TR>
>  </TABLE>
>
>
> 2008/11/19 Steve Shipway <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>:
>>> When I tried to run some cfg file generated by cfgmaker, I got:
>>>
>>> ERROR: Line 63 (</TD></TR>) in CFG file
>>> (/home/user/Scripts/robot/cfg/192.168.254.40/general/mrtg_192.168.254.40_p
>>> ing.cfg)
>>>  does not make sense
>>>
>>> and here is a part of cfg file:
>> ...
>>> </TD></TR>    <====== HERE IS THE LINE 63
>>>
>>> I have noticed that when I add a space before this line manually, all
>>> runs OK. So either I screw the cfgmaker and the file (how?) or it is a
>>> small bug of cfgmaker or... any third option?
>>
>> This is an error in the cfgmaker file, as you say.
>>
>> Did you use any templates to generate this file?  I suspect you have an
>> error in the template where the embedded line does not have the whitespace
>> prefix required.  This sometimes can happen if you copy a template from a
>> web page where it has not been embedded in PRE tags to preserve whitespace
>> (hopefully it didn't come from my library).
>>
>> Check your templates for this sort of line, possibly in a 'print <<END;'
>> type statement.
>>
>> Another, less likely cause is that Description being given by your device is
>> carriage-return terminated but the template (or cfgmaker) does not take
>> account of this, expecting the end tag to remain on the same line.  If this
>> is the case then check your version of cfgmaker and upgrade if possible.
>>
>> If not possible, I can give you an interface template which will suppress
>> this (it would take a bit of work though and Im too busy to work it out this
>> minute)
>>
>> Steve
>>
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