Question on services configuration.

[Aaron M. Segura]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:21 -0700, Aaron M. Segura wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:13 -0600, Luis Fernando Lacayo wrote:
> > Good Day everyone, 
> > 
> > I have been struggling with a configuration issue. I trying to configure
> > a service to check an samba share.  I am using the check_disk_smb
> > plug-in, I have several shares and I have been able to successfully
> > configure all but one.  The problem is that the password has an "!".
> > When I try the command from the command line it works fine, but not
> > within Nagios, because the ! is a field delimiter within the service
> > configuration.  I have tried using $! and putting the password in single
> > and double quotes. I am not able to change the password because the
> > share is used by many manual and automated processes.
> > 
> > any help will be greatly appreciated.   
> > 
> > Luis
> 
> I think I remember reading the solution is to use two exclamation
> points: !!
> 
> ...however, I can't find that reference right now...
> 

Fool!  This is the solution for Dollar Signs, not Exclamation Points!

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