passing a string with spaces to nrpe

[Lori Adams]

Yes, we pass arguments all the time to nrpe.  I'm just having an issue with a passing a string that contains spaces.

From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:nagios at flatto.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:08 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] passing a string with spaces to nrpe

On 29/09/10 18:00, Lori Adams wrote:
I'm having a terrible time setting up nrpe to allow me to pass a string with spaces.  This is with nagios 3.x and nrpe 2.0.

The service config is trying to check a log on a remote server for a string that contains spaces.

The service block has the check_command set to:
check_command                   check_log_perl_nofilter_test!/srv/logs/spamnet/log-parser/log-parser.log!/srv/nagios_nrpe/tmp/log-parser.log.out!\"ERROR: Parent: Fatal error\"

The check_command is set to:
define command {
        command_name    check_log_perl_nofilter_test
        command_line    $USER2$/check_nrpe -u -t 30 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_log_perl_nofilter -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ "$ARG3$"
}

The nrpe config is then:
command[check_log_perl_nofilter]= /srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=$ARG1$ --oldlog=$ARG2$ --query=$ARG3$

If I change the nrpe config to echo the command, so that it looks like:
                command[check_log_perl_nofilter]= echo /srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=$ARG1$ --oldlog=$ARG2$ --query=$ARG3$
Then, the output of the echo is:
/srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=/srv/logs/spamnet/log-parser/log-parser.log --oldlog=/srv/nagios_nrpe/tmp/log-parser.log.out --query=ERROR:

I've tried quoting the $ARG3$ in the nrpe command, and I get the same thing.

I've seed other threads on the list that in order to pass quotes to nrpe, you must escape them.  You can see I've tried that.   Any guidance would be extremely helpful.


Thanks,
Lori Adams

Have you compiled nrpe with the allow command arguments ?

to get the proper syntax do ./configure --help




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