[Nagios-devel] Spaces in arguments?

[Gunnar Hellekson]

> From: Russell Scibetti <russell at quadrix.com>
> Organization: Quadrix Solutions Inc.
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:35:23 -0400
> To: Gunnar Hellekson <ghelleks at yahoo.com>, nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Spaces in arguments?
> 
> For functionality sake, try adding a \ before each space to escape the
> space.  That might work.

Tried that, actually.  Didn't fly.  The only recourse was to url-encode the
incoming parameters and decode them in the script.


> Gunnar Hellekson wrote:
> 
>> This is a message I sent to nagiosplug-devel.  This behavior appears to be
>> coming from embedded perl, so I'm sending it here.  Seems as though the
>> argument parsing behavior is drastically different between checks run under
>> embedded perl and those run more conventionally.
>> 
>> 
>> ------ Forwarded Message
>> From: Gunnar Hellekson <ghelleks at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 01:12:05 -0400
>> To: nagiosplug-devel <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] Spaces in arguments?
>> 
>> 
>> I've pored through the Nagios code, posted questions, and tried to find
>> working examples.  I'm starting to think I'm stupid.  I've written a plugin
>> which takes, among other things, a string containing spaces.
>> 
>> define command {
>> command_name my_plugin
>> command_line $USER1$/my_plugin -C '$ARG1$' -T $ARG2$
>> }
>> 
>> define service {
>> host_name my-host
>> service_description buggy-service
>> use generic-service
>> check_command my_plugin!A String With Spaces!AnotherValue
>> }
>> 
>> Running this as nagios works, of course:
>> 
>>   ./my_plugin -C 'A String With Spaces' -T AnotherValue
>> 
>> When run in Nagios, it behaves as if:
>> 
>>   ./my_plugin -C \'A String With Spaces\' -T AnotherValue
>> 
>> In other words, argv is:
>> 0 == ./my_plugin
>> 1 == -C
>> 2 == 'A
>> 3 == String
>> etc.
>> 
>> 
>> I have tried:
>> 
>>   * wrapping $ARG1$ in both (') and (") characters
>>   * wrapping $ARG1$ in escaped quotes (\'), (\")
>>   * wrapping the first argument in the service declaration (A String...)
>>     in ('), (") and escaped quotes (\'), (\")
>> 
>> In every case, the command is executed as if each word of $ARG1$
>> is a seperate argument.
>> 
>> This is with Nagios 1.0b5, Solaris 2.6.  The documentation to popen()
>> and Nagios tell me that I should have to, at most, place a single quote (')
>> around the $ARG1$ string in the check_command directive.  Yet, no
>> joy.
>> 
>> Can anyone confirm this?  Has anyone been able to get arguments
>> containing spaces fed into their plugins?
>> 
>> I would recompile with DEBUG1 so I could see the raw_command and
>> processed_command, but nagios dumps core each time I've tried.
>> 
>> Anyone?
>> 
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>> 
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> 
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