check_nrpe parses arguments to -a (with fix)

[Ethan Galstad]

John Sellens wrote:
> check_nrpe parses arguments to the -a option, which it
> shouldn't, since those args are for the remote plugin,
> not for check_nrpe itself.
> 
> Repeat by:
>     /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe -H one -c hello -a there -V
> which will likely complain about -V being invalid.
> 
> I ran into this when I was trying to do an indirect check_http:
>     check_nrpe -H gatehost -c check_http -H webhost
> and noticed that check_nrpe was trying to connect to webhost
> and not gatehost.
> 
> Here's a quick diff to src/check_nrpe.c that stops parsing args
> once it finds -a, and also adds the -V option to the getopt args.
> 
> Thanks - cheers!
> 
> John

You can avoid this problem by quoting any arguments passed with the -a
option:

./check_nrpe -H one -c hello -a "opt1 -V opt2 -xyz opt3"




Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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