external notification commands

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:58 PM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] external notification commands
> 
> On 1/23/07, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> 
> > # 'notify-by-pager' command definition
> > define command{
> >        command_name    notify-by-pager
> >        command_line    echo '/usr/local/pager/client
$CONTACTADDRESS1$
> > "Service: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress:
> > $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\nInfo: $SERVICEOUTPUT$\nDate:
> > $LONGDATETIME$ $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
> > $SERVICESTATE$"' >> /tmp/nagios_notification.log
> >        }
> 
> Well, I really don't get this. That worked. If I just copy and paste
> that output (from echo) to the command line it works fine...

That's a good start. Did you run your test as the nagios user? Perhaps
your client script accesses some script/program/device that only root
has permissions to use.

--
Marc

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