upgrade to 2.0b1 / event handlers broken

James jkmoseley at jump.net
Wed Jan 19 05:49:35 CET 2005


Yeah, using full paths to executables (especially when a process is running as a
user that you may not have setup a profile for...) is good.  Unfortunately,
these shell scripts don't work with or without an executable at the beginning
of the command line...

James

Quoting Steve Shipway <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>:

> James Mosley wrote:
> >[1106090538] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER:
> >tx-svr-1;NAGIOS;CRITICAL;HARD;2;handle-master-proc-event
> >[1106090658] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER:
> >tx-svr-1;NAGIOS;OK;HARD;2;handle-master-proc-event
> >
> >However, the event scripts simply aren't being called by the
> >nagios process as verified by modifications I made to them for
> >testing purposes.  Running the EV scripts manually works, so
> >it's not broken scripts.  Addtionally, all the config
>
> I've had similar behaviour under Nagios 1.2.  An event handler script
> (written in perl) ran fine from the command line, but not as an event
> handler.
>
> I found that, if I specified the perl executable on the commandline, or even
> wrapped it in a shellscript, it worked:
>  command_line    /usr/bin/perl $USER2$/eh-send-bb.pl $SERVICESTATE$
> $STATETYPE$ $SERVICEATTEMPT$ $HOSTADDRESS$ "$SERVICEDESC$"
>
> No idea why, but this might help you if the scripts are perl or shell
> scripts?
>
> Steve
>
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