Perl plugin exit code?

[Jeff]

ALL,

Thanks for the suggestions.  I did manage to get it to work.  I had to
use strict and declare all my variables.

Thanks,

Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Andreas Ericsson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 18:03
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Perl plugin exit code?
> 
> 
> Jeff wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I've written a perl script to check the status of some information 
> > from one of our application databases.  It seems to run 
> fine manually 
> > but nagios only get's (No Output!) when I try to use it live.
> > 
> > Permissions on the perl script are set correctly, if I su - over to 
> > nagios I can run the script as nagios.  So I'm stumped and 
> looking for 
> > ideas here.
> > 
> 
> Are you running Nagios with the embedded perl interpreter 
> turned on? If 
> so, try re-compiling without it, or make sure the mini-epn 
> can execute 
> the script. This can (in part) be assured by making it run without 
> warnings with the strict pragma and the -wT options to the 
> hashbang line.
> 
> > Second part of my question has to do with perl more than nagios, 
> > Obviously I need to send the correct exit code to nagios.  I set a 
> > varialble "$status" (0, 1 or 2) in the script according to 
> the query 
> > results and at the end of the script I have
> > 
> > Exit $status;
> > 
> > Will this give the correct exit status that nagios is looking for?
> > 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Lead Developer
> 
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