Escape \ in nagios config files?

[Janet Sullivan]

Of course, right after I sent that, I found a solution.  It seems I can
use 3 \s to escape a \.  My path in the service definition becomes:

\\\\\\\\localhost\\\\_definst_\\\\mp3\\\\mn_mp3_08_07\\\\streams

...and it works.   

Is there a list of all the ways to escape special characters in Nagios?
The only reason I came up with the three \ escape sequence was because I
noticed that my \\\\localhost was being seen as \localhost in the error
message.  I haven't found any mention of that sequence on google. :-/

-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Sullivan 
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:56 PM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Escape \ in nagios config files?

I want to check the disk space of a UNC path -
\\localhost\_definst_\mp3\mn_mp3_08_07\streams

>From the command line, I can check it fine (using check_nrpe2) if I
escape each  \ like this:

\\\\localhost\\_definst_\\mp3\\mn_mp3_08_07\\streams

But when I try to use configure Nagios to check it, it strips out all
the \ characters.  I've tried single quotes, double quotes, and escaping
each \ - no luck.  How can I tell Nagios about this path in a service
definition without it stripping out the special characters?  Is there an
escape method I'm missing?  


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