[Nagiosplug-devel] Possible forking issue ?

[Raymond Page]

To whomever might have a clue more than me:

I'm using Cyrus IMAP's imtest to check our mail servers.  From the 
command line I'm able to get the program to work.  However, it is not 
automated.  I wrote a perl script that uses Perl Expect to 
interactively converse with imtest so I don't have to.  Running the 
perl script from the command line works as I anticipated.  The 
problem is when I have nagios call the perl script.  With Perl 
Expect, it forks off a child process, and that child then execs 
imtest.  When called from Nagios, for some reason, an "OPEN" call 
fails in the Perl Expect module where it forks.

I'm just curious if anyone here might know why this would happen.

Appreciate any thoughts,

Raymond Page