Question on services configuration.

[Adam Kennedy]

Aaron M. Segura wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:21 -0700, Aaron M. Segura wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:13 -0600, Luis Fernando Lacayo wrote:
>>> Good Day everyone, 
>>>
>>> I have been struggling with a configuration issue. I trying to configure
>>> a service to check an samba share.  I am using the check_disk_smb
>>> plug-in, I have several shares and I have been able to successfully
>>> configure all but one.  The problem is that the password has an "!".
>>> When I try the command from the command line it works fine, but not
>>> within Nagios, because the ! is a field delimiter within the service
>>> configuration.  I have tried using $! and putting the password in single
>>> and double quotes. I am not able to change the password because the
>>> share is used by many manual and automated processes.
>>>
>>> any help will be greatly appreciated.   
>>>
>>> Luis
>> I think I remember reading the solution is to use two exclamation
>> points: !!
>>
>> ...however, I can't find that reference right now...
>>
> 
> Fool!  This is the solution for Dollar Signs, not Exclamation Points!

Have you tried a backslash? \!

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Adam Kennedy
Senior Network Administrator
Cyberlink Technologies, Inc.
Phone: 888-293-3693 x4352
Fax: 574-855-5761

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