From 4b2274ea266d5e3288f2d60bcd8f06bf19128f38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arif Ali <mail@arif-ali.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:45:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix bug 3971, trim othernames variable

---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/hosts.pm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/hosts.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/hosts.pm
index 609c6028b..096aa4e15 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/hosts.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/hosts.pm
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ sub build_line
     my $othernames = shift;
     my @o_names    = ();
     my @n_names    = ();
+
+    # Trim spaces from the beginning and end from $othernames
+    $othernames =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
+
     if (defined $othernames)
     {
 		# the "hostnames" attribute can be a list delimited by