how to escape special characters checking a windows service

[Anthony Montibello]

If my memory is correct $$ for each $ works in the Service Config.

Depending on your Windows plugin and version of check_nt this may be
documented in the help or other files

Tony (Author of NC_NEt)

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Jan Kuhn <jkuhn at siumed.edu> wrote:

> This works when running from the command line:
>
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -p 1248 -v
> SERVICESTATE -l 'mssql$waspdb'
> All services are running
>
> But this doesn't in the servers.cfg  It adds the second $.
>
> check_command                   "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  -p 1248 -v SERVICESTATE -l 'mssql$waspdb'"
>
> It adds the second $.
>
> mssql$waspdb$: Unknown
>
> I've got other services working correctly with embedded spaces.  Special
> characters are causing trouble.  I've tried escaping with \, all sort of
> quote combinations.
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks, jan
>
>
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