[Nagiosplug-devel] Spaces in arguments?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Put the quotes on the service definition  - NOT the command definition.

-sg


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Gunnar Hellekson wrote:

> 
> I've pored through the Nagios code, posted questions, and tried to find
> working examples.  I'm starting to think I'm stupid.  I've written a plugin
> which takes, among other things, a string containing spaces.
> 
> define command {
> command_name my_plugin
> command_line $USER1$/my_plugin -C '$ARG1$' -T $ARG2$
> }
> 
> define service {
> host_name my-host
> service_description buggy-service
> use generic-service
> check_command my_plugin!A String With Spaces!AnotherValue
> }
> 
> Running this as nagios works, of course:
> 
>    ./my_plugin -C 'A String With Spaces' -T AnotherValue
> 
> When run in Nagios, it behaves as if:
> 
>    ./my_plugin -C \'A String With Spaces\' -T AnotherValue
> 
> In other words, argv is:
> 0 == ./my_plugin
> 1 == -C
> 2 == 'A
> 3 == String
> etc.
> 
> 
> I have tried:
> 
>    * wrapping $ARG1$ in both (') and (") characters
>    * wrapping $ARG1$ in escaped quotes (\'), (\")
>    * wrapping the first argument in the service declaration (A String...)
>      in ('), (") and escaped quotes (\'), (\")
> 
> In every case, the command is executed as if each word of $ARG1$
> is a seperate argument.
> 
> This is with Nagios 1.0b5, Solaris 2.6.  The documentation to popen()
> and Nagios tell me that I should have to, at most, place a single quote (')
> around the $ARG1$ string in the check_command directive.  Yet, no
> joy.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this?  Has anyone been able to get arguments
> containing spaces fed into their plugins?
> 
> I would recompile with DEBUG1 so I could see the raw_command and
> processed_command, but nagios dumps core each time I've tried.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> 
> 
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