Problem with check_log

[Phil Costelloe]

> From: James M. Albright [mailto:jalbr at groupwise.umn.edu] 
> 
> 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"

The * is at best redundant and the slashes are the wrong way round for
escaping. Try 

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" 

That's what it will say whenever a new match hasn't been found.

Phil


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