Nagios 3.X quoted check commands

[Marc Powell]

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> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hugo van der Kooij
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> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.X quoted check commands
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> Aaron McKinnon wrote:
> | I'm working on migrating a 1.4 server that uses some quoted check
> | commands. For example:
> |
> | check_command
"/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_file_age
> | -w 86400 -c 172800 -W 310000 -C 1 -f
/mnt/backup/aus-sql0/mysql/mysql.sql"
> |
> | ...and it appears that 3.X doesn't support that:

It was removed early in the 2.x release --

http://nagios.cvs.sourceforge.net/nagios/nagios/base/config.c?view=log&p
athrev=nagios-2-0

Revision 1.8 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
Wed Dec 4 02:33:05 2002 UTC (5 years, 5 months ago) by egalstad
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.7: +8 -5 lines
Diff to previous 1.7

Host check commands can now have arguments, removed vanilla command
support

> Why would you use these quotes here to begin with. The while line
after
> the check_command keyword is considered to be the command to run the
check.

It didn't always used to be so. Using raw commands was supported and
useful. What other reason would someone need?

--
Marc


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