nsclient++ and nrpe commands

[Steve Shipway]

I believe that the 'Illegal metacharacter' error message is generated
because your command contains a '>' character, which could potentially
be someone trying to use shell redirect to break in to your machine.
 
You will definitely need to escape or quote the > to prevent the shell
interpreting it.
 
I don't know if this error is being produced by check_nrpe, by
nsclient++, or by Nagios itself.  Certainly on our system, Nagios 1.4
does not check commands for illegal characters, and check_nrpe 2.5.2
does not either, so my guess is that nsclient++ is doing it.  Make sure
you have your parameters quoted and check nsclient++ for definitions of
illegal characters...
 
Steve

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Steve Shipway
ITSS, University of Auckland
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s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz



 


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	From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mies,
Christian
	Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:36 a.m.
	To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] nsclient++ and nrpe commands
	
	
	Hi,
	I'm trying to use nsclient++ on Windows Machines. Everything is
working fine, instead of check_nrpe with checkEventLog :-(
	If I type:
	./check_nrpe -H 172.16.101.13 -p 5666 -c checkeventlog -a
file=System filter=in filter=all truncate=512 MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1
filter-eventType==info filter-generated=>10m
	 
	on my shell, I get no output. If I try ./check_nrpe -H
172.16.101.13 -p 5666 -c checkeventlog -a file=System filter=in
filter=all truncate=512 MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1 filter-eventType==info
filter-generated=\>10m I'll get a error :Illegal Meta Character. Any
ideas to this?
	Who is using nsclient++ with Eventlog Functionallity?
	 
	regards

	Christian Mies 

	 

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