Nagios killing xmessage

[Redder,Greg]

We're running Nagios 2.9.  We have a command configured:

define command {
        command_name    host-notify-by-xmessage
        command_line    /etc/nagios/scripts/host-notify-by-xmessage "$HOSTSTATE$" "$HOSTNAME$" "$HOSTALIAS$" "$DATETIME$"
        }

The "host-notify-by-xmessage" is a shell script that pulls in a text file and displays that text file along with the host and the problem via an xmessage to an xdisplay.  This all works fine when run from the command line.  It even works when invoked by nagios, but when nagios invokes it, it also kills the process in about 30 seconds.  This wasn't a problem on Nagios 1.x.  We recently upgraded to 2.9 and ran into this issue.  I've tried nohup'ing the xmessage, but no luck - it seems like the nagios process kills it no matter what!?   I've tried converting the script to perl and using 'system' or 'exec' calls, but that didn't fix the problem either.

Does anyone have a workaround for this or a suggestion on things to try, please?

Thank you,
Greg Redder
Network Analyst
Colorado State University

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