check_procs and negating regex in --ereg-argument-array

[Camron W. Fox]

All,

	Is it possible to negate the regular expression used in
--ereg-argument-array with check_procs?

	We want to ignore one of the processes running on a machine but when we
try to use negative lookahead the regex is not processed correctly
because it reads ! as a bash internal command:

./check_procs -w 25 -c 35 -m CPU -v --ereg-argument-array=^((?!john).)*$
./check_procs -w 25 -c 35 -m CPU -v --ereg-argument-array=^((?john
--show passwd.ldap).)*$
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

	And the Nagios web output shows: NRPE: Unable to read output

	Does anyone have any suggestions?

Best Regards,
Camron

-- 
Camron W. Fox
Hilo Office
High Performance Computing Group
Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc.
E-mail:		cwfox at us.fujitsu.com


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