user-defined resources not properly expanded as command arguments

[Matt Pounsett]

Another interesting problem I can't seem to trace. 

Late yesterday, my check_mysql command suddenly started failing.  A check of
my logs indicated that Nagios was suddenly trying to login as $@localhost.  
Further testing has narrowed down the problem to expansion of user-defined
resources when used as command arguments.

Here are the particulars:

in resources.cfg
--------
$USER1$=/usr/local/libexec/nagios/
$USER2$=/usr/local/site/nagios/
$USER3$=mysqluser
$USER4$=sqlpassword
--------

in checkcommands.cfg
--------
define command {
   command_name check_mysql
   command_line $USER1$/check_mysql -u $ARG1$ -p $ARG2$
}
--------

in hosts.cfg
--------
define service {
   use                 templateService
   host_name           myhost.dom.com
   service_description MySQL
   check_command       check_mysql!$USER3$!$USER4$
}
--------

When check_mysql executes, Nagios is running the following command:

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mysql -u $ -p $

This begins to work correctly if I put the user/pass directly into the MySQL
service definition, or if I replace the ARGx entries with USERx entries in the
check_mysql command definition.

I've tried rebuilding the hosts file from scratch to rule out the nebulous
"strange characters" bug (even though vim would warn me if anything non
printable were in the file) with no luck.

If this hadn't worked at one point I would just assume that USERx variables
couldn't be used in service definitions... but it did work up until last
night.

Any thoughts?

-- 
Matt Pounsett                 CIRA - Canadian Internet Registration Authority
Technical Support Programmer                    350 Sparks Street, Suite 1110
matt.pounsett at cira.ca                                 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
613.237.5335 ext. 231                                      http://www.cira.ca



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