AW: Monitoring Windows Event Log from Nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

Greg King wrote:
> I solved the embedded perl problem by encapulating the perl script inside
> a shell script. Here's the code that works for me:
> 
> [root at z3 libexec]# cat check_win_eventlog.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_win_eventlog.pl $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
> $6 $7 $8
> exit $?
> 

That will give you problems if there are spaces in the arguments. You 
should try
/usr/bin/perl perlscript.pl "$@" 2>&1
instead, which expands the argument list and encapsulates each argument 
in double quotes. The 2>&1 part sends stderr to stdout, so you can trap 
occasional perl errors instead of getting the old 'no output', if you 
want a more generic wrapper.

Or just disable the embedded perl interpreter. Judging from mail going 
to nagios-devel, problems with it aren't likely to be solved any time 
soon...

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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