did you try <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">/check_snmp -t 3 -P 3 -H <a href="http://192.168.16.11">192.168.16.11</a> -w 1 -c 5 -L authPriv -U XXXXXXXX -a MD5 -A XXXXXXXX -X XXXXXXXX -o nsExtendResult.'"extt2"' </blockquote><div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2006/2/16, Kyle Tucker <<a href="mailto:kylet@panix.com">kylet@panix.com</a>>:</blockquote><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I'm trying to use the new extend directive in Net-SNMP and the symbolic OIDs literally contain a quote. I can't get check_snmp to be satisfied with the quotes I need to pass. I need to be able to pass nsExtendResult."extt2" to snmpd. Any suggestions? Thanks. /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -t 3 -P 3 -H <a href="http://192.168.16.11">192.168.16.11</a> -w 1 -c 5 -L authPriv -U XXXXXXXX -a MD5 -A XXXXXXXX -X XXXXXXXX -o nsExtendResult."extt2" Could not open pipe: /usr/local/bin/snmpget -t 3 -r 5 -m ALL -v 3 -l authPriv -a MD5 -u XXXXXXXX -A XXXXXXXX -x DES -X XXXXXXXX <a href="http://192.168.16.11:161">192.168.16.11:161</a> nsExtendResult."extt2" /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -t 3 -P 3 -H <a href="http://192.168.16.11">192.168.16.11</a> -w 1 -c 5 -L authPriv -U XXXXXXXX -a MD5 -A XXXXXXXX -X XXXXXXXX -o nsExtendResult.\"extt2\" Could not open pipe: /usr/local/bin/snmpget -t 3 -r 5 -m ALL -v 3 -l authPriv -a MD5 -u XXXXXXXX -A XXXXXXXX -x DES -X XXXXXXXX <a href="http://192.168.16.11:161">192.168.16.11:161</a> nsExtendResult.\"extt2\" -- - Kyle --------------------------------------------- <a href="mailto:kylet@panix.com">kylet@panix.com</a> <a href="http://www.panix.com/~kylet">http://www.panix.com/~kylet</a> --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! <a href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642"> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div> -- Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée.