check_procs count going haywire on Ubuntu

up at 3.am up at 3.am
Wed Aug 10 02:17:33 CEST 2011


> After wondering why all of the processes I'm checking with check_procs
> were counting an extra, I discovered the bug with /bin/dash under Debian
> [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626913]
>
> As a workaround (because I'm not interested in changing the default shell
> for the entire server), I called /bin/bash when defining my commands in
> nrpe.cfg. Now they're going haywire in a different way. For instance:
>
> command[check_pdns_config_pub]=/bin/bash -c
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 1:1 -c 1:1 -a "pdns_server
> --config-name=public"

Wait...looks like your quotes are in the wrong place.  Try:

 command[check_pdns_config_pub]=/bin/bash -c "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs
-w 1:1 -c 1:1 -a pdns_server --config-name=public"

Everything after -c should be in double quotes.

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