'$' symbol being appended to command_line?

[Alexis Hazell]

Hi all,

i've been having major problems getting email notifications to work
with nagios 3.0.6 on Mandriva Linux 2009.0. As part of my attempts
to isolate the problem, i've modified commands.cfg thus:

define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | cat > /var/log/nagios/mail-$(date
+%k:%M.%N).log
        }

This produces the required .log file with the request contents -
but oddly, the name of the file has an '$' symbol appended to it. If
'$' is being appended to the end of the command line, that might
well explain why email notifications aren't working: the contact
email address would be getting '$' appended to it. i've tested the
essentials of the notify-service-by-email command_line by su'ing to
the nagios user and running:

    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Notification test" | /bin/mail -s
"Notification test" my.email at domain

. . . . which works fine.

Any help or suggestions regarding a fix or workaround for this issue
would be greatly appreciated. :-)

Thanks in advance,


Alexis.

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