Problem executing plugins under nagios 3.0.6

[Matthew Melvin]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:12 +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote:

>  I've recently tried upgrading from nagios 2.9 to nagios 3.0.6 but now it
> seems like nagios is having trouble executing plugins.  The execve calls
> are failing with E2BIG.  An example from an strace...
> 
> 23545 execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c",
> "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dummy 3 \"Stale results\""], [/* 191 vars
> */]) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)

To follow up... essentially the E2BIG was happening not because **argv
was too large, but because **envp was.   NAGIOS_HOSTGROUPMEMBERS alone
was many KBs.  Setting...

enable_environment_macros=0

... seems to have resolved my issue.

M.

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