Problem with external commands and custom variables

[Stefan Strandberg]

Hi,

I'm attempting to implement some custom variables for hosts.  Supposedly
the external command to change the custom variable for a host is
CHANGE_CUSTOM_HOST_VAR with a certain syntax.  Unfortunately for me, it
doesn't seem to be working.

Nagios receives the command and logs it, but doesn't seem to actually
process it.

The command given is:

-- start script --

#!/bin/sh

now=`date +%s`
commandfile='/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd'

/usr/bin/printf "[%lu]
CHANGE_CUSTOM_HOST_VAR;dent;_REPAIRSTATUS;repair\n" $now > $commandfile

-- end script --

and nagios logs it with
[1223412361] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
CHANGE_CUSTOM_HOST_VAR;dent;_REPAIRSTATUS;repair

in nagios.log, so I think it should be working.  However, the variable
never changes in the status.dat file.

Am I missing a step or doing something wrong?  The documentation doesn't
have any other examples, and nothing turns up on google.

Thanks,

-stefan

-- 
Stefan Strandberg
UNIX group
Computer Aided Engineering - UW Madison
stefan at cae.wisc.edu



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