Hi all: I am a newbie to Nagios. I love it...! I have a check_... command that executes a shell script and returns values. Works perfectly on the host but returns "hh:mm Not a valid file or directory" . I checked permissions and they look fine. nrpep is running via xinetd and with root permissions. Also in other cases, I executed shell commands directly for the plug-ins but some parts of the returned message are missing. For example, I have this in nrpep.cfg command[check_baxp_script]=ls -lat /var/log/bax/ams/baxp/*.gz | head -n 1 | awk '{print "[Last execution ended " $6 " at " $7 "]"'} The $6 is the date and $7 is the modified time of a file. It works fine on the host but on the Nagios web page I see [Last execution ended Jul at 18] instead of [Last execution ended 2004-07-18 at 20:40] It seems that somewhere something is trying to interpret the string..and losing some data! BTW, I am not sure what I should return in case of success and what in case of error. Can someone point me to the documentation (could not find it in plug-in documentation). __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840