<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Yeah, mine works now, I've wrapped it up in a shell script. I actually used echo -e "$hostname\t$service\t...." since I think it's more clear. Significant whitespace is rubbish, just don't say that in front of any python programmer.... like all the guys at my company! :-) -h <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon </pre> Owen Berry wrote: <blockquote cite="mid763ca2a0611281143y4e6a5e91q75c8eee36306bbeb@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The send_nsca I'm running is expecting tab separated fields on stdin by default. Try running it without arguments to see what your version expects. This works for me: echo "testhost TestService 0 OK" | bin/send_nsca nagiossvr -c etc/send_nsca.cfg The spaces in the echo are actually tabs. Owen On 11/28/06, Hari Sekhon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hpsekhon@googlemail.com"><hpsekhon@googlemail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> hmm, the plugin is the check_mailq plugin, which outputs the following: /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -M postfix -w 500 -c 1000 OK: mailq (33) is below threshold (500/1000)|unsent=33;500;1000;0 Thanks, after pulling my hair out trying to understand this I feel like I have a lead again... (I also tried echo and got the same thinking it's a general fault in not sending) -h Hari Sekhon </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV">http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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 </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>