<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7654.12"> <TITLE>RE: [Nagios-users] OS lvl scripts not running</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Powell [<A HREF="mailto:marc@ena.com">mailto:marc@ena.com</A>] > Sent: Tue 11/08/2009 3:17 PM > To: Nagios User list > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] OS lvl scripts not running > > > On Aug 11, 2009, at 5:35 AM, Tim Clarke wrote: > > > Aug 11 11:12:38 man6 nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION: > > alladmins;man3;MySQL > > mysql database;OK;notify-service-by-sms;Uptime: 5 Threads: 1 > > Questions: 7 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 12 Flush tables: 1 Open > > tables: > > 6 Queries per second avg: 1.40 > > Nagios is executing your command_line. This is good. > > > The email turns up instantly but not the sms. > > > > Here's the /etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg entry which you can see by > > the log above is firing: > > define command{ > > command_name notify-service-by-sms > > command_line /usr/bin/smssend $CONTACTPAGER$ "Nagios - > $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ : $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ > ($OUTPUT$)" > # command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "To: > $CONTACTPAGER$\n\nNagios - $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ : > $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ ($OUTPUT$)" > ` > mktemp /tmp/out_XXXXXX` > } > > And you can see the commented out test I put in to see if it would run > *anything* - that commented out line fails too. > > I can't speak to smssend but as for your test, you can't depend on the > location of mktemp to be in your $PATH. Try specifying the full path > the mktemp in the command_line or just hard-code a filename for this > specific test. > > -- > Marc Marc Thanks for stimulating the little grey cells, it turned out to be a non-ascii set of double-quotes in the command line. The oldies are the best. That'll teach me to paste from web pages... Tim </BODY> </HTML>