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following the nagios documentation, i have setup my first event handler.
I used the script that is on the doc page here https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... dlers.html,
to help me write my own.

One thing that I am trying to do is to log to a file from the script.
When Nagios event handler executes this script, where does the echo output go to? to a log file somewhere?

i also have lines in the script like the below to to write to my own log file
When executing the script manually, it all works fine, but from when nagios executes the script, I do not get any logs in the /tmp/evenhandlers file.

I am running Naigos Core 3.5.1, on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. I am thinking could the shell that I am using have anything to do with it?

Thanks

The script doesn't log to anywhere, except internally to Nagios.

Your script, is going to log to /tmp/eventhandlers - what exactly are you looking to accomplish?

If I manually execute the event handler script from the command line, it does log to /tmp/eventhandler
if Nagios runs the event handler, script gets executed, but nothing gets logged to /tmp/eventhandler.
I am trying to log to /tmp/eventhandlers.

Also, if by default the logging doesn't go anywhere, is there any point in all the echo commands in the scripts?

Thanks

Do you have the script assigned as an event handler? What are the permissions of the file? ls -l /tmp/eventhandler

ok, so it was permission with the file.

Thanks for your help rkennedy.

I will close this topic now, thank you.