nrpe producing odd garbage in output?

[Justin Pryzby]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:25:04PM -0800, Andy Moran wrote:
> 
> Run remotely, odd garbage returned:
> 
> obfuscatedserver:~ amoran$ sudo -u nagios /opt/local/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe -H obfuscatedclient -c check_load -a 5.0,4.0,3.0 20.0,15.0,10.0
> WARNING - load average: 5.28, 5.00, 4.78|load1=5.285;5.000;20.000;0; load5=5.003;4.000;15.000;0; load15=4.785;3.000;10.000;0; 
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> obfuscatedserver:~ amoran$ 
> 
> run locally, no garbage:
> 
> obfuscatedclient:~ amoran$ sudo -u nagios /opt/local/libexec/nagios/check_load -w 5.0,4.0,3.0 -c 20.0,15.0,10.0
> WARNING - load average: 4.46, 4.77, 4.74|load1=4.461;5.000;20.000;0; load5=4.774;4.000;15.000;0; load15=4.735;3.000;10.000;0; 
> obfuscatedclient:~ amoran$ 
> 
> 
> So it would seem the garbage is coming from nrpe.  I've compiled nrpe using 2.8.1 and it's running on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).  Anyone seen anything like this?
Yes, I noticed it in the web interface, and hadn't gotten around to
digging into it.  Thanks for bringing it up.

It seems that upgrading to 2.12 will resolve it:

2.12 - 03/10/2008
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- Fix for unterminated multiline plugin (garbage) output (Krzysztof Oledzki)

Justin

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