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[email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after upgrading to Nagios 3.0 it seems that backslashes are no longer
> passed to nrpe clients. The TESTHOST is running nsclient++.
>
> When i do (as user nagios):
>
> ./check_nrpe -H TESTHOST -n -p 5666 -c CheckFileSize -a
> File=c:\\temp\\*.* MaxWarn=150M MaxCrit=200M
>
> i get this:
>
> OK all file sizes are within bounds.|'c:\temp\*.*'=127.51M;150;200;
>
> which is the correct result.
>
>
> When Nagios is performing the same check, the result is:
>
> Status information: OK: c:temp*.*: 0B
> Performance Data: 'c:temp*.*'=0B;104857600;209715200;
>
> which is obviously not correct (as the backslashes are missing)
>
> Can anyone confirm this problem?
>

Yes. This is because both nagios and nrpe need to invoke a shell
to run the command. When you're giving arguments to nrpe you need
to double-escape them so the command the nrpe daemon sees is the
one with double backslashes (that is, use 4 backslashes in the
nagios config).

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