Antwort: Backslash problems in notifications [Virus scanned]

[Sascha Runschke]

> Now, for most alerts this works fine. But for the disk space alerts,
> printf looks at the backslash followed by a one and reports it as being
> an invalid escape sequence. The e-mail comes through but is truncated
> from the word "on", thus blasting away the last half of the alert
> message.

This is a known issue.
Ethan should have updated the CVS by now and a new snapshot should
fix the problem. You just need to add \ to the illegal_macro_chars
variable in nagios.cfg, if not done already.

If using the newest snapshot is not feasable for you, you can use
this workaround:

define command{
        command_name    notify-by-email
        command_line    /bin/bash -c "printf \"%b\" \"***** Nagios 
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: 
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nDescription: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: 
$HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATE$ 
$TIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n\n\"" | /bin/mail -s "** 
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" 
$CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

The built-in printf function of bash doesn't suffer from misinterpreting 
wrong escapesequences.

sash

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