Cheshire Cat Computing

OK - if the file is missing from the menu, then that means that either
1) it has routers.cgi*Ignore: yes
or
2) it has routers.cgi*InMenu: no
or
3) it has routers.cgi*Options: ignore
or
4) routers2 doesn't think it has any valid targets

From what you say, it looks like the answer is (4).

If you have Optimise switched on, then only a cursory check of the file is done when building the list. Basically, this stops the moment it finds a Title[] line.

HOWEVER, a file is only treated as 'valid' if it has either an Include: line, or a Target[]: line.

Remember that routers2 prefers to have the Target[] line first for a block? I suspect that your first target has the Title[] line before the Target[] line, and so the optimised scan will quit before it confirms a valid title.

I agree that it is a bit silly to not realise that a valid Title[] must also mean a valid Target[]... however, the reason for this is because it needs to have the Target line in order to exatrct host names and community strings.

However I will fix this for 2.17

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Ah I wasn't looking for Title.. just target. I did a Target[_]: placeholder at the top of the cfg since Routers2 doesn't seem to care as long as I use a routers*description or something. (I was trying to streamline my config by eliminating unnecessary text)

Of course I dig and read further and according to your docs there is no need to use optimise=yes if I'm using Speedy so I just set optimise=no and all is well. Do you think that will be a problem?

Thanks for the prompt response!

Eric Brander

Optimise=no is better if you can do it, but unless you are using speedycgi or mod_perl then it can lower performance too much as it reads in all the configs. With optimise=yes, it will try to skip ahead when it thinks it can - but as you see, it has to make some assumptions about the format of the .cfg files.

Running with optimise=no is more likely to work correctly as it checks everything.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11