[Nagiosplug-help] Web interface shows UNKNOWN although Perl pluginsreturn exit code 0

[Fetzer, Peter]

Hi,

Christoph Haas wrote:
> I am currently migrating from Nagios 1.x to 2.6 and want to take my
> collection of self-made Perl plugins with me. (I was pointed at
> nagiosexchange on IRC but the plugins I was interested in were either
> Windows-only or written in PHP or didn't compile or were 
> evily insecure
> so I decided to stay with what I did already so I can blame myself.)
> 
> The plugins generally work well. They print out the status 
> line as they
> used to and return the exit code 0 (tested with "echo $?" on 
> the bash).
> However the web interface of Nagios shows them as "UNKNOWN" in yellow.

do you have embedded perl turned on in your nagios installation?
If you do so or if you don't know, because you installed from a binary
package, try to change your command definition from

command_line    /path/to/script.pl ...
to
command_line    /usr/bin/perl -w /path/to/script.pl ...


Regards,
Peter