external notification commands

[Brian Loe]

On 1/23/07, Brian Loe <knobdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> > # 'notify-by-pager' command definition
> > define command{
> >        command_name    notify-by-pager
> >        command_line    echo '/usr/local/pager/client $CONTACTADDRESS1$
> > "Service: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress:
> > $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\nInfo: $SERVICEOUTPUT$\nDate:
> > $LONGDATETIME$ $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
> > $SERVICESTATE$"' >> /tmp/nagios_notification.log
> >        }
>
> Well, I really don't get this. That worked. If I just copy and paste
> that output (from echo) to the command line it works fine...
>
What permissions would that application need to have for Nagios to run it?
drwxr-xr-x       /usr/local/pager
-rwxrwxrwx     client

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