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<DIV>Well I tried writing a wrapper script to see what check_http was actually receiving. The answer would appear to be absolutely nothing, in</DIV>
<DIV>fact check_http is never even getting called. Something in the parameters would appear to be causing nagios to throw an exception when</DIV>
<DIV>trying to make the call that is caught and treated as a critical error with a null reply.</DIV>
<DIV>When I went through the -A parameter and escaped every non-standard character everything burst into life, the wrapper reported the correct</DIV>
<DIV>string and check_http reported the site as up. </DIV>
<DIV>Clearly that whereas bash only needs $ and ` escaping within inverted commas nagios must have a larger list, including I would guess either the ; or the :</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for the help</DIV>
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