check_ide_smart & commands.cfg

[Marc Powell]

On Oct 16, 2008, at 2:25 PM, <ibloodyhatespam at gmail.com> <ibloodyhatespam at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> When I try to incorporate it into commands.cfg and add it to the  
> localhost checks however, nagios refuses to load the updated scripts.

Telling us what it says when doing so is useful information.

> localhost.cfg:
> #define service{
>         use                             local-service
>         host_name                       localhost
>         service_description             SMART sda
>         check_command                   check_ide_smart!/dev/sda
>         notifications_enabled           0
>         }
>
>
> No useful output either (nor in the logs)...

Any output is useful output when troubleshooting; it eliminates  
possibilities.

> Commenting both means everything loads fine again though, so the  
> problem has to be in here.
> What exactly am I doing wrong?

You've commented out the first line of the service definition. Running  
'/path/to/nagios -v /path/to/nagios.cfg' will cause nagios to perform  
syntax checks on the config files and report errors.

--
Marc



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