Nagios fails pre-launch verification step; "Unexpected token or statement" in command.cfg

[Marcel Hecko]

This should probably go to plugins maintainers since command.cfg which 
is distributed with plugins actually contains that line:

root at fipad:~/dl/nagios-plugins-1.4.11# grep notify-by-email * -R

command.cfg.in:command[notify-by-email]=/bin/printf "$OUTPUT$" | 
/bin/mail -s '$SERVICESTATE$ alert for $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$' 
$CONTACTEMAIL$

command.cfg.in:command[host-notify-by-email]=/bin/echo -e "***** Nagios 
*****\n\nHost "$HOSTALIAS$" is $HOSTSTATE$!\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n" 
| /bin/mail -s 'Host $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$!' $CONTACTEMAIL$

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Marcel Hecko
NAGIOS Consultancy, Slovakia

Robert Dodier wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> It seems like the packaging is a little out of date; I wouldn't expect
>>>       
>>  > the latest & greatest tarball to contain configuration files with the
>>  > wrong format. Oh well.
>>
>>  I checked before responding. The example config files are in the correct
>>  format. I'm not sure where you got these but I assure you it wasn't from
>>  the distribution nagios tarball.
>>     
>
> I assure that it was indeed.
>
> I went to http://www.nagios.org/download/ and clicked the button
> to download "Nagios 3.0 (stable)" which redirected me to SF from
> which I obtained nagios-3.0.tar.gz. Then I went back to
> http://www.nagios.org/download for "Nagios Plugins (stable releases)"
> which sent me to SF, from which I downloaded the most recent
> release, nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz dated 2007-12-13.
> >From those I built rpms via rpmbuild -tb <tarball>.
> Then I installed those rpms. The obsolete command.cfg was in
> one of those rpms.
>
> Maybe building rpms is a stupid idea. If so, would someone please
> remove the rpm spec files from the tarballs.
>
>   
>> This format hasn't been used or  distributed for probably 5 years or more.
>>     
>
> Maybe the files were in a state of suspended animation in the
> Bermuda Triangle or Knotts Berry Farm or something.
>
> FWIW
> Robert Dodier
>
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