Macros Available as Environmental Variables

[Andreas Ericsson]

Naman Latif wrote:
> Hi, As per the Nagios2 documentation, the Macros are now available as
> Environmental Variables. Does that mean I can have a Perl\Shell
> Script executed by a Cronjob that can access these variables ?

No. Only processes forked by Nagios have access to these variables.

> I am
> interested in the Macros $TOTALSERVICESCRITICAL$. Can an external
> script access this variable's value ?

Not unless executed by Nagios, no.

> If yes, can someone point me to
> how (I am not a Unix Expert..!) ?
> 

foo=bar
echo $foo
should get you on the learning curve. The topic is far too wide and deep 
for this forum. I'm sure O'Reilly and friends have a vast pile of books 
on the topic.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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