From bba651d2708f18a6066c8b6b26540dda7d1e60c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jordi Sanfeliu <jordi@fibranet.cat>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:31:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added a caveat in 'serv.pm' and its doc about to have
 different logfiles when a service is defined multiple times

---
 lib/serv.pm               | 5 +++++
 man/man5/monitorix.conf.5 | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/serv.pm b/lib/serv.pm
index d2935f5..b99c75e 100644
--- a/lib/serv.pm
+++ b/lib/serv.pm
@@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ sub serv_update {
 					$sc[3] = "\".\"" unless $sc[3] ne "\"\"";	# set "." as a minimal regex
 					my @regex = split('\+', $sc[3]);
 					my $IN;
+
+					# FIXME
+					# $seek_pos does not distinguish between different
+					# logfiles when a service is defined multiple times.
+
 					my $seek_pos = $config->{serv_hist}->{$seek_str} || 0;
 					if($logfile =~ m/^file:.+/) {
 						$logfile =~ s/^file://;
diff --git a/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5 b/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5
index dbd0777..6f3514a 100644
--- a/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5
+++ b/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5
@@ -3212,6 +3212,8 @@ You can create multiple definitions of the same service with different values, s
 .RE
 .P
 You can define as much entries as you want.
+.P
+Caveat: it does not distinguish between different logfiles when a service is defined multiple times.
 .RE
 .P
 .BI mode