<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hugo van der Kooij wrote: <blockquote cite="midPine.LNX.4.58.0608120015490.19364@gandalf.hugo.vanderkooij.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Hari Sekhon wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hari Sekhon wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Here is an example CRITICAL: Only 19.11G (4%) free on 92.168.1.138ig2 Why does it seem to be mangled? Is this a character set issue or a local issue or something? </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">also, the web interface shows this normally: CRITICAL: Only 18.85G (4%) free on \\192.168.1.138\big2 but the email alerts always come out as CRITICAL: Only 18.88G (4%) free on 92.168.1.138ig2 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Which makes sense if you read the printf() documentation. You are using a character which has a special meaning in string handling environments. Just get rid of those backslashes or escape them properly. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">It's not that terrible cos I still know what's going on but this shouldn't happen, and I'd like to resolve it. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You got exactly what you ordered. Hugo. </pre> </blockquote> After following your suggestion regarding prinf and checking the previously unchanged misccommand.cfg I'm not entirely sure what is going on here. The definition for email is below: # 'notify-by-email' command definition define command{ command_name notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } This doesn't look bad to me, it seems to simply be using lots of Macro$ so I assume that the macro must be sending it something funny.... Will have to scratch my head and try to track that down. Hari </body> </html>