Bad handle of # for comments in munin-node config file

[Thomas]

My config :
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

Package:
munin-node:
  Installé : 1.4.6-3ubuntu3.1
  Candidat : 1.4.6-3ubuntu3.1
 Table de version :
 *** 1.4.6-3ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.4.6-3ubuntu3 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

Found this problem using a # in a password for Mysql user root with a config file containing things like that :
[mysql*]
user root
env.mysqlopts --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf
env.mysqluser root
env.mysqlpassword test#test

Searching in the code, I've solved the problem (for me) changing line 96 of /usr/share/perl5/Munin/Common/Config.pm :
- $_[0] =~ s/#.*//;
+ $_[0] =~ s/(^|\s+)#.*//;

[Kenyon Ralph (kralph)]

This appears to be fixed in munin 2 by allowing '#' to be escaped with '\': https://github.com/munin-monitoring/munin/commit/786481518fb77a27567b818359005fde9b125c27

[Thomas (thomasl)]

Well, this is good news ;)

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I am marking this as fixed, because Munin 2 is in the Ubuntu development release already and should have the fix for this.