--- projects/cms/source/host/ihost-perl/ihost.pl	2001/12/18 03:51:11	1.43
+++ projects/cms/source/host/ihost-perl/ihost.pl	2002/03/11 13:34:24	1.46
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # a typical Unix/Linux box.
 #
 # $Author: tdb $
-# $Id: ihost.pl,v 1.43 2001/12/18 03:51:11 tdb Exp $
+# $Id: ihost.pl,v 1.46 2002/03/11 13:34:24 tdb Exp $
 #------------------------------------------------------------
 
 $| = 1;
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ use vars qw (
              $fqdn
              $pidfile
              $retry_wait
+             $ostype
              @data
             );
 
@@ -46,6 +47,11 @@ $filter_manager_port = $ARGV[1];
 $seq_no = 1;
 $retry_wait = 60;
 
+# work out our platform, if we can.
+$ostype = `uname -s`;
+chomp $ostype;
+$ostype = "unknown" if not defined $ostype;
+
 # write our PID to a file
 # use home dir by default
 #$pidfile = $ENV{"HOME"};
@@ -266,7 +272,7 @@ sub send_udp_packet() {
     opendir PLUGINS, $plugins_dir;
     my(@plugins) = readdir PLUGINS;
     foreach my $plugin (@plugins) {
-        push @data, `$plugins_dir/$plugin` if -x "$plugins_dir/$plugin" && -f "$plugins_dir/$plugin";
+        push @data, `$plugins_dir/$plugin $ostype` if -x "$plugins_dir/$plugin" && -f "$plugins_dir/$plugin";
     }
     
     # get some extra data
@@ -423,11 +429,11 @@ sub make_xml() {
                 $xmltemp .= &make_xml("$curlevel$curtag", $curline);
             }
             my($nextline) = $data[0]; chomp $nextline if defined $nextline;
-            if((defined $nextline) && ($nextline =~ /^$curlevel$curtag/)) {
+            $curtag =~ s/(.*)\./$1/;
+            if((defined $nextline) && ($nextline =~ /^$curlevel$curtag\./)) {
                 $curline = ""; 
             }
             else {
-                $curtag =~ s/(.*)\./$1/;
                 $xmltemp = "<$curtag$attributes>$xmltemp</$curtag>" unless $curtag eq "";
                 return $xmltemp;
             }
@@ -445,5 +451,15 @@ sub make_xml() {
                 return $xmltemp;
             }
         }
+	# dealing with a null value
+	elsif($curline =~ /^$curlevel([^\.\s]+)$/) {
+	    # simply adding a space makes the above elsif deal with it :)
+	    # just level with an empty tag in the XML
+	    $curline .= " ";
+	}
+	# failing all that, skip the line
+	else {
+	    $curline = "";
+	}
     }
 }