Is there a max length for a command_line ?

[Thomas Sluyter]

On 19 Jun, 2006, at 16:51, Thomas Sluyter wrote:

> Why not make things a bit more readable by putting that long  
> command in a separate script?
>
> Your original question still stands though and I'm curious as well..
>
>
>
> On 19 Jun, 2006, at 16:42, Steve Traylen wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I've  been trying to use check_cluster2 to monitor over all  
>> state of a 1000 node batch farm .
>>
>>   So you end up with something like.
>>
>>   define command{
>>      command_name check_host_cluster_workers
>>      command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_cluster2 \
>>         --host -l "Batch Cluster" -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -d  
>> $HOSTSTATEID:node0001$,$HOSTSTATEID:node0002$,  .... \
>>                   ...  $HOSTSTATEID:node0998$,$HOSTSTATEID:node0999 
>> $,$HOSTSTATEID:node1000$
>>   }
>>
>>   While I can run
>>
>>   $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_cluster2 --host -l "Batch" -w 3 - 
>> c 5 -d 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,...,1,1,1,1.0
>>
>>   on a cammand line for 1000 nodes okay the command when run  
>> within nagios is trucated at a certain
>>   length. Probably 1024 though I have not counted. Only the first  
>> 500  or so nodes are considered.
>>
>>   Is there a limit on command_line length somewhere within nagios?
>>   Can any one think of a way around this.
>>
>>   Steve
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve Traylen
>> s.traylen at rl.ac.uk
>> http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/
>>
>>
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