Help! nrpe_nt, service check when name contains $ problem

[L. Mark Stone]

On Wednesday, June 29, 2005 04:02 am, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> >>Escape the $ with a $, so that you have double dollar-signs in your
> >>command, like so
> >>MSSQL\$$BKUPEXEC
> >
> > Never tried escaping the dollar sign, we just use vertical, single
> > quotes, like this:
> >
> >                check_nt_service!'MSSQL$SHAREPOINT'
> >
> > Works great for services that have spaces in them, too, like:
> >
> >                check_nt_service!'Symantec AntiVirus'
>
> The dollar-sign escape was necessary a couple of versions ago (beta
> 2?) to make Nagios not add a second dollar sign after the string,
> thinking it was a macro but not being able to resolve it.

We use the single quotes successfully on our production Nagios 1.2 
installation, and we are preparing a test Nagios 2.0 installation to 
replace our 1.2 setup, once 2.0 is released. 

Are you saying the single quote trick won't work with the 2.0 CVS 
version we downloaded yesterday?

Thanks,
Mark

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