[Nagios-devel] Spaces in arguments?

[Russell Scibetti]

For functionality sake, try adding a \ before each space to escape the 
space.  That might work.

Russell Scibetti

Gunnar Hellekson wrote:

>This is a message I sent to nagiosplug-devel.  This behavior appears to be
>coming from embedded perl, so I'm sending it here.  Seems as though the
>argument parsing behavior is drastically different between checks run under
>embedded perl and those run more conventionally.
>
>
>------ Forwarded Message
>From: Gunnar Hellekson <ghelleks at yahoo.com>
>Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 01:12:05 -0400
>To: nagiosplug-devel <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] Spaces in arguments?
>
>
>I've pored through the Nagios code, posted questions, and tried to find
>working examples.  I'm starting to think I'm stupid.  I've written a plugin
>which takes, among other things, a string containing spaces.
>
>define command {
>command_name my_plugin
>command_line $USER1$/my_plugin -C '$ARG1$' -T $ARG2$
>}
>
>define service {
>host_name my-host
>service_description buggy-service
>use generic-service
>check_command my_plugin!A String With Spaces!AnotherValue
>}
>
>Running this as nagios works, of course:
>
>   ./my_plugin -C 'A String With Spaces' -T AnotherValue
>
>When run in Nagios, it behaves as if:
>
>   ./my_plugin -C \'A String With Spaces\' -T AnotherValue
>
>In other words, argv is:
>0 == ./my_plugin
>1 == -C
>2 == 'A
>3 == String
>etc.
>
>
>I have tried:
>
>   * wrapping $ARG1$ in both (') and (") characters
>   * wrapping $ARG1$ in escaped quotes (\'), (\")
>   * wrapping the first argument in the service declaration (A String...)
>     in ('), (") and escaped quotes (\'), (\")
>
>In every case, the command is executed as if each word of $ARG1$
>is a seperate argument.
>
>This is with Nagios 1.0b5, Solaris 2.6.  The documentation to popen()
>and Nagios tell me that I should have to, at most, place a single quote (')
>around the $ARG1$ string in the check_command directive.  Yet, no
>joy.
>
>Can anyone confirm this?  Has anyone been able to get arguments
>containing spaces fed into their plugins?
>
>I would recompile with DEBUG1 so I could see the raw_command and
>processed_command, but nagios dumps core each time I've tried.
>
>Anyone?
>
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