passing arguments with spaces

[Marc Powell]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Noel Platzke wrote:

> I've tried everything possible.
> I am completely lost.
> I want to throw my keyboard through a window.
> How in god's name do I get nagios to accept an argument that  
> includes spaces?
>
> I have a service that uses the check_by_ssh plugin to run a script  
> on a remote server. The script takes an argument that is wrapped in  
> quotes and can potentially contain spaces.

> So I defined a new command...
>
> command_name        my_custom_script
> command_line           /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -H  
> $HOSTADDRESS --command="/my/custom/script '$ARG1$'"
>
> and set up a new service...
>
> my_custom_script!"this is my argument"

Don't use quotes here. You're effectively canceling the quotes you  
have above, leaving the arguments with spaces bare. The command line  
that nagios is trying to run as a result is --

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -H <someaddress> --command="/my/ 
custom/script '"this is my argument"'"

--
Marc


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