Problem with check_log

[James M. Albright]

I have to be doing something wrong.  It seems I can see the log with
nagios but am unable to alert on my situation.
here is what I have wrote to the log file.

Nov 19 08:11:04 zumbro.oit.umn.edu JMA: [ID 702911 local7.info] Hello
World

and here is what my command looks like in nrpe.cfg 

command[check_local7]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_log -F
/var/local_logs/candle/oracle -q "*/[ID 702911 local7.info/] Hello
World"

when ever I run this command from nagios I get "Log check ok - 0
pattern matches found" 
any help would be great thank
Jim A.

>>> "Phil Costelloe" <philc at foundation-it.com> 11/18/2003 3:38:45 AM
>>>
> From: James M. Albright [mailto:jalbr at groupwise.umn.edu] 
> 
>   I have nrpe working great, but I have run into a problem.  
> I want to check a log for a patter it seems to be finding the 
> log but I must have the patter part messed up here is what I 
> have in my nrpe.cfg file.
> 
> command[check_local7]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_log -F 
> /var/local_logs/candle/oracle -q '[ID 702911 local7.info] Hello
World'
> 
> I keep getting  "Log check ok - 0 pattern matches found"  
> even after I write Hello World to the log 
> Any help would be great thanks 

The square brackets (and indeed any other special characters) have to
be
escaped. The query string is used as the pattern for a grep, so 'man
grep' for details.

command[check_local7]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_log -F
/var/local_logs/candle/oracle -q '\[ID 702911 local7.info\] Hello
World'

Phil


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