check_file_age help

[Justin T Pryzby]

Nagios probably doesn't use the shell, which is how wildcards get
expanded, so the plugin is just seeing "*" instead of a filename.

I suggest to use a shell wrapper, like

#! /bin/sh
set -e

d=/stuff/backup
pp=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins

x=`ls -lt "$d"` 1>&2 || exit 3
x=`echo "$x" |sed q`
exec $pp/check_file_age -f "$x" -w .. -c .. -W .. -C ..

Or you can keep a "current" symlink or such, pointing to the most
recent backup.

Justin

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Jeremy Page wrote:
> Hello list, I am trying to use check_file_age on Ubuntu 10.04 to check a
> local file system. When I specify the file name it works but using a
> wildcard fails saying it cannot find the file. I need to use the
> wildcard - the files have unique names based on the date created.
> 
> Both work when run interactively from the command line as the Nagios
> service.
> 
> My check command is:
> define command {
>     command_name        check_file_age_v1
>     command_line        $USER1$/check_file_age -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -f $ARG3$
>     }
> 
> The service command is:
> 
> Works:
> define service{
>     host_name                 host.company.com
>     service_description    backup check - Is the file new in the past 24
> hours
>     check_command       
> check_file_age_v1!86400!172800!/stuff/backup/2012-07-30-02-01-30_backup.xml
>     use            generic-service
>     }
> 
> Does not work:
> define service{
>     host_name        host.company.com
>     service_description    backup check - Is the file new in the past 24
> hours
>     check_command        check_file_age_v1!86400!172800!/stuff/backup/*
>     use            generic-service
>     }
> 
> 
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