Perl plugin exit code?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jeff wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've written a perl script to check the status of some information from
> one of our application databases.  It seems to run fine manually but
> nagios only get's (No Output!) when I try to use it live.
> 
> Permissions on the perl script are set correctly, if I su - over to
> nagios I can run the script as nagios.  So I'm stumped and looking for
> ideas here.
> 

Are you running Nagios with the embedded perl interpreter turned on? If 
so, try re-compiling without it, or make sure the mini-epn can execute 
the script. This can (in part) be assured by making it run without 
warnings with the strict pragma and the -wT options to the hashbang line.

> Second part of my question has to do with perl more than nagios,
> Obviously I need to send the correct exit code to nagios.  I set a
> varialble "$status" (0, 1 or 2) in the script according to the query
> results and at the end of the script I have
> 
> Exit $status;
> 
> Will this give the correct exit status that nagios is looking for?
> 

Yes.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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