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Posted: **Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:05 am**

Hi everyone!
I'm a nagios happy user from Italy.
My centos server is running nagios core v3.4.1 and i'm using check_disk_smb plugin to check share free disk space. At some point in past plugin output change from:

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Disk ok - 3.8G (1%) free on 10.41.186.10 share: Dati

to:

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 Only 4.46G (1%) free on \\10.41.186.10\Dati

additional backslash in response message create a problem with service notification command because printf "%b" takes "\\10." and convert it as octal code (i think) and sendmail sent it as attachment.

Here is my command configuration:

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define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n\n$NOTIFICATIONCOMMENT$" | /bin/mail -s"** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

modify plugin's code doesn't seem the definitive solution.
There's a way to prevent this kind of problem in nagios side?

Thank you.
Bye
Debe

Posted: **Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:31 am**

You could just %b to %s. That might introduce other subtle bugs, though (nothing serious, you'll just notice notification text that's a little off). Unfortunately it can be hard to get quoting right in Nagios sometimes, since everything is always passed straight to a shell.

Posted: **Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:50 am**

Unfortunately, in that way, printf ignore all escape char, so also \n doesn't work anymore...
Seems that modify plugin code is the only solution.

anyway Thanx for the support!
Debe

Posted: **Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:56 am**

No problem, sorry there wasn't an easier solution.

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