check_nrpe 2.0 and simple shell scripting

[Frank Thyes]

Dear list,
im expieriencing a strange behaviour with check_nrpe in conjunction
with a simple shell script. The script does nothing exceptionally.
The script should check the files which hang around in the
postfic mailq. Sure for this purpose exists a special plugin called
check_mailq, but this plugin just calls the program mailq. Supposed
we have 20k mails in there the command needs a lot of time to
comlete. Its faster to count the files in active and deferred to get
the whole queue. Unfortunately each time i use something like the
example among, the script just return exit code 3, unkonw...

ACTIVE=`find /var/spool/postfix/active/ -type f | wc -l`
..
if [ $AMOUNT -ge 0 ]; then
..

Writing the output from find to a tmp file doesnt work too

/usr/bin/find /var/spool/postfix/active/ -type f > /tmp/active
ACTIVE=`cat /tmp/active| wc -l`

The general functionality has been verified with statical values.

Any ideas?

Regards
Frank

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