Antwort: backslash in plugin output

[srunschke at abit.de]

nagios-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 28.11.2005 18:09:36:

> This problem was previously reported on the nagiosplug-help list by
> Sascha Runschke about a year ago (2004-11-03), but I could not find
> any responses to that message in any Nagios or Nagios Plugin list.
> Here's a link to the original message:
> 
>   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9953710
> 
> Does anybody have a solution for this problem?

Personally I am using a rather dirty hack to circumvent
this problem. Back then I started researching more into
this topic and the actual fault lies in the implementation
of various printf binaries. Most printf binary implementations
are prone to the poblem, but not all are - though I was too
lazy to find out why that like that.

I just know that the bash-builtin printf is doing its job
correct. Therefor I forced Nagios into using the bash-builtin
like this:

define command{
        command_name    notify-by-email
        command_line    /bin/bash -c "printf \"%b\" \"***** Nagios 
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: 
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nDescription: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: 
$HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATE$ 
$TIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n\nProblem bestaetigen: 
http://nagios.abit.de/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi?cmd_typ=34&host=$HOSTNAME$&service=$SERVICEDESC$\"" 
| /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$ is 
$SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

This command is perfectly able to handle all an every \ in
your output.

Though you need to change it to fit your needs, I added
some sugar with the direct acknowledge link and such for
our non-pro Nagios users.

regards
        sash

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