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Yes there is more to my script.
I have attached it because I find it quite useful.
It will monitor your bandwidth with vnstat and output in a format nagios understands.
Also to note, this is my first proper script.

Yes you can mark this as solved.
Thank you.

Thank you for reply's btw. Ok I found my solution for this. My script was exiting prematurely in an if statement. Statement is to check for valid network interfaces. I'm guessing because cron isn't executed in the same environment it was taking 0 for the value of $foundface. So then it would just ju...

It is in roots crontab.
I do see the process getting executed in the log file.
Selinux is disabled.

A coworker suggested something along the lines of adding tty to cron.
Since cron isn't run in the same environment as a terminal.

I am still looking into this and will post if I find a solution.

Hello All, I am setting up passive checks for the first time. I have gotten to the point where my script, to check bandwidth, will run and successfully execute this command send_nsca -H 172.16.0.0 -p 5667 -d ";" -c /etc/nagios/send_nsca.cfg <<< "Host;Service;$exitcode;$nagiosmsg"...