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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Yes, we pass
arguments all the time to nrpe. I’m just having an issue with a passing a
string that contains spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Assaf Flatto
[mailto:nagios@flatto.net] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] passing a string with spaces to nrpe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On 29/09/10 18:00, Lori Adams wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I’m having a terrible time
setting up nrpe to allow me to pass a string with spaces. This is with
nagios 3.x and nrpe 2.0.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The service config is trying
to check a log on a remote server for a string that contains spaces.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The service block has the
check_command set to:<br>
check_command
check_log_perl_nofilter_test!/srv/logs/spamnet/log-parser/log-parser.log!/srv/nagios_nrpe/tmp/log-parser.log.out!\"ERROR:
Parent: Fatal error\"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The check_command is set to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>define command {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>
command_name check_log_perl_nofilter_test</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>
command_line $USER2$/check_nrpe -u -t 30 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c
check_log_perl_nofilter -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ "$ARG3$"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>}</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The nrpe config is then:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>command[check_log_perl_nofilter]=
/srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl --filename=$ARG1$ --oldlog=$ARG2$
--query=$ARG3$</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>If I change the nrpe config
to echo the command, so that it looks like:<br>
command[check_log_perl_nofilter]= echo /srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl
--filename=$ARG1$ --oldlog=$ARG2$ --query=$ARG3$</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Then, the output of the echo
is:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>/srv/nagios_nrpe/scripts/check_log.pl
--filename=/srv/logs/spamnet/log-parser/log-parser.log --oldlog=/srv/nagios_nrpe/tmp/log-parser.log.out
--query=ERROR:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I’ve tried quoting the $ARG3$
in the nrpe command, and I get the same thing. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I’ve seed other threads on
the list that in order to pass quotes to nrpe, you must escape them. You
can see I’ve tried that. Any guidance would be extremely helpful.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Lori Adams</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Have
you compiled nrpe with the allow command <em>arguments ?</em><i><br>
<br>
<em>to get the proper syntax do ./configure --help</em><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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