nagios execution of notify commands, debugging the exact command being run

[Andreas Ericsson]

Duncan Robertson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are running nagios and it is all working quite well, except some (but
> not all) sms notifications are not sent (though the log says they are).
> We are using sms_client as the sending mechanism, and it works quite
> well run from command line as nagios user. I suspect it is the generated
> alert string being fed to it is something it doesn't like for one class
> of machines - 
> 
> - but is there a way to turn on the logging so I can see the exact
> command being executed on notify so I can debug it?
> 
> My usual way of solving this (strace) doesnt want to play, for some
> reason strace doesnt want to latch onto the nagios process either. This
> is on redhat 9, nagios 1.2 (from DAG rpm).
> 

For nagios; Run 'strace -f' to have it follow the children spawned by 
fork() instead of exiting with the parent process.
How do you run it with sms_client?


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