Scripting within nrpe.cfg

[gottfried hufnagel]

hi!

what does "it doesn't work right" mean?

check which user runs the nagios-daemon (normally it will be "nagios")
then check if the user has appropriate rights to manipulate (read/write) the 
files you want to check.

greetinx!

gottfried

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 20:58, A Cline wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I want to use the check_file_age plugin to tell me the age of the
> newest file in a directory.  Something like this works from the
> command-line:
>
> "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_file_age -w 600 -c 1200
> /usr/hns/pdreceiver/received/`ls -t /usr/hns/pdreceiver/received |
> head -n 1`"
>
> but if I try to place this line in the nrpe.cfg file it doesn't work
> right.  Is there a way to do what I'm trying to accomplish?
>
> Thanks
>
> Aaron
>
>
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