sending two lines with check_tcp plugin

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Angel L. Mateo wrote:

> 	I am trying to monitor one of my servers with check_tcp plugin. With
> this, I could send a string to the server (to the specified port) and
> analize the answer in order to get an OK, warning or critical message.
>
> 	But the problem I have is that I need to send two lines to the server I
> want to check, not just one. I have tried to put:
>
> 	check_tcp ... -s "first line\nthe second one" ...
>
> 	but it sends it as is, without substituting \n for a line break.

Will that system understand \n to be a line break? Because dos and windows
systems need CR + LF to do the trick.

Have you tried a literal linebreak in the config file?

Hugo.

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