Solution: Exclamation Point Workaround

[Andreas Ericsson]

Brandon Knitter wrote:
> 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 $ARG1$
> $ARG2$
> 

A simpler solution is ofcourse to define the command as
check_database.sh '$ARG1$' '$ARG2$' '$ARG3$' '$ARG4$'
and the service as
check_command check_database!host!port!user!password\!

> 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,
> 

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


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