Loosing NAGIOS_* env variables in 3.4.1

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Fri May 25 16:23:24 CEST 2012


On 05/25/2012 02:52 PM, Mark D. Nagel wrote:
> On 5/24/2012 11:59 PM, Mark Elsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>      >    - I have some 'home-written' notification scripts launched
>>      from NAGIOS ;
>>      >  now when using nagios 3.4.1 , all NAGIOS_*  variables are gone.
>>      (printenv listing).
>>
>>            >+ Make sure you're not using large_installation_tweaks and
>>      that you have
>>            >+ enable_environment_macros=1 set in nagios.cfg.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Tx!  I explicitly needed  :
>>
>>                    enable_environment_macros=1
>>
>> In nagios.cfg when using 3.4.1 , to get my problem>resolved<. I
>> wasn't using this setting before (nor was it set to 0).
> 
> 
> It sure would be neat if this was something you could enable environment
> macros per command.  Then you could have the default be off to get
> better performance for checks, but still get them for notification
> commands, which is often the main place they are useful.
> 

They're hardly useful there either, tbh, and if you really need them
you can just put them up as command-line macros before the command
you wish to run, like so:

NAGIOS_SOMEVAR="$NAGIOS_SOMEVAR$" /path/to/something

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