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by wby47
Sun May 26, 2019 5:20 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: escaping dollar signs in plugin output
Replies: 3
Views: 1551

Re: escaping dollar signs in plugin output

\$$ gives me literal $$ in the web UI. Haven't tested via mail notification yet. \\$ looks Ok in web UI What would seeing more of the code help? the actual value being interpolated is just a string representing a number. The issue, I think is that mailx is trying to do variable interpolation on it,...
by wby47
Wed Apr 24, 2019 1:11 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: escaping dollar signs in plugin output
Replies: 3
Views: 1551

escaping dollar signs in plugin output

I have a plugin, written in Python. I'm using Nagios 3.5.1; mail alerts are sent using mailx. To get the web UI to display a literal dollar sign in the web UI, I have to escape the literal dollar sign; this seems to work Ok there: that is: 'OK: no transactions exceeding threshold (\${}) in the previ...