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class=373191222-28022007>I believe that the 'Illegal metacharacter' error
message is generated because your command contains a '>' character, which
could potentially be someone trying to use shell redirect to break in to your
machine.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=373191222-28022007>You will definitely need to escape or quote the > to
prevent the shell interpreting it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=373191222-28022007>I don't know if this error is being produced by
check_nrpe, by nsclient++, or by Nagios itself. Certainly on our system,
Nagios 1.4 does not check commands for illegal characters, and check_nrpe 2.5.2
does not either, so my guess is that nsclient++ is doing it. Make sure you
have your parameters quoted and check nsclient++ for definitions of illegal
characters...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=373191222-28022007>Steve</SPAN></FONT></DIV><!-- Converted from text/plain format -->
<P><FONT size=2>--<BR>Steve Shipway<BR>ITSS, University of Auckland<BR>(09) 3737
599 x 86487<BR>s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz<BR><BR></FONT></P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
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[mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mies,
Christian<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:36 a.m.<BR><B>To:</B>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users]
nsclient++ and nrpe commands<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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class=221483221-28022007>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=221483221-28022007>I'm trying to use
nsclient++ on Windows Machines. Everything is working fine, instead of
check_nrpe with checkEventLog :-(</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=221483221-28022007>If I
type:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>./check_nrpe -H 172.16.101.13 -p 5666 -c
checkeventlog -a file=System filter=in filter=all truncate=512 MaxWarn=1
MaxCrit=1 filter-eventType==info filter-generated=>10m</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=221483221-28022007><FONT face=Arial size=2>on my shell, I get
no output. If I try ./check_nrpe -H 172.16.101.13 -p 5666 -c checkeventlog -a
file=System filter=in filter=all truncate=512 MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1
filter-eventType==info filter-generated=\>10m I'll get a error :Illegal
Meta Character. Any ideas to this?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=221483221-28022007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Who is using
nsclient++ with Eventlog Functionallity?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=221483221-28022007><FONT face=Arial
size=2>regards</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Christian
Mies </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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