plugins with rsh

[dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum]

We have a legacy setup with tru64 hosts that are currently configured for
rsh, not ssh. I've installed the latest and greatest nagios on a relatively
recent fedora host and have used plugins with ssh in the past. The problem
is that rsh doesn't return status codes properly. Rather, it returns
only the status code of rsh itself, not the command. A search implies you
just need to echo $? with rsh.

rsh linux to linux, I get this:

linux1> rsh linux1 'date ; echo $?'
Wed Jan  3 15:15:07 EST 2007

and trying to generate an error:
linux1> rsh linux1 'bogus ; echo $?'
bogus; Command not found.
1

So that looks ok but first problem is when I put into nagios commands
define ....
   rsh $HOSTADDRESS$ 'mycommand; echo $?'
The web page show "(No output!)

Is it possible it swallows the quotes?

Further, rsh behaves differently on tru64:

linux1> rsh tru64-host 'date;echo $?'
Variable syntax.

Any ideas for these problems?

Thanks

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