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Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:27:30PM -0400, Michael Jewett wrote:

> Just wondering what is the easiest way to get information into the
> command_file. I have a passive check I'm working on that I would like to
> have the results put into the command file.
>
> do I just append the text to the end of the file? or what?
^named pipe.

Yes. However it depends on where the passive check is running: On the
Nag host - append it to the fifo; otherwise use send_ncsa to do so.

>
> I would like to do it in perl if at all possible.
>

open(F, '>>command_fifo); print F, ..yada; close F;

see http://YourNag/path_to_Nag/docs/extcommands.html

for a complete dscription of the command format _and_ also a note
referring to sample scripts (in /bin/sh).

> Thanks,
> Michael
>

Yours sincerely.

--
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.





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