How does negate work?

[Jason Frisvold]

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I realize it sounds like a dumb question, but either I'm doing something
wrong, or my copy of negate is broken...  Shouldn't these return
different results?

[root at dev objects]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -H 10.0.0.1 -C
public -o .1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.4.1.1.0 -r 3$
SNMP CRITICAL - *4* | iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.4.1.1.0=4

[root at dev objects]$ ../../libexec/negate
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -H 10.0.0.1 -C public -o
.1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.4.1.1.0 -r 3$
SNMP CRITICAL - *4* | iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.4.1.1.0=4


If I understand correctly, the first command should return an OK if, and
only if, the value returned by the SNMP query is equal to 3.

Adding a negate to that means I should get an OK if the return is
anything except 3.

What am I missing here?

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Jason Frisvold
Network Engineer
frisvolj at lafayette.edu
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand"
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