escaping $ characters

[Tedman Eng]

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html

"...Note that the command line is not surrounded in quotes. Also, if you
want to pass a dollar sign ($) on the command line, you have to escape it
with another dollar sign. "



-----Original Message-----
From: HP Geeza [mailto:getbacktome3 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:57 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] escaping $ characters


Hi

I was wondering if anybody knew how to escape a $ sign when checking if a 
Windows service is running:

For example i have I have a line in a service:
check_command                   check_nt_service!"MSSQL$BKUPEXEC"
check_command                   check_nt_service!"SQLAgent$BKUPEXEC"

But nagios doesn't seem to like this.  The status information is saying:
MSSQL$: Unknown
SQLAgent$: Unknown

ALL OTHER Windows services are being detected fine (so my check_nt_service 
command is working).....therefor this makes me belive it is the $ sign in 
the name of the service which i am checking for.

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