Solution: Exclamation Point Workaround

[Brandon Knitter]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I was having an issue where
my password to a database had a "!" in it.  So the service had the following:

    check_command check_database host!port!user!password!

Where the password was "password!".  Of course you can't do that cause the
exclamation is a separator and a reserved character.  So I changed my commmand
from:

    command /path/to/check_database.sh $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$

to the following:

    command printf "$ARG3$ $ARG4$" | xargs /path/to/check_database.sh $ARG1$
$ARG2$

and then in my object definition, I changed my check command to:

    check_command check_database host!port!user!password\x21

The printf command will expand the "\x21" to a "!" when executing things.  It's
a nice little workaround that I found and figured I'd share. :)  Hope this
helps y'all.

Cheers,

-- 
-bk








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