<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3243" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>I am running 3.0rc2. I am trying to get the variable $HOSTNOTES$ to appear in notify-host-by-email</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This is the notify-host-by-email command definition that I changed. I added "Notes: $HOSTNOTES$\n\n" in the spot shown below:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV># 'notify-host-by-email' command definition define command{ command_name notify-host-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nNotes: $HOSTNOTES$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } <DIV> The host I'm testing with contains only the word: TEST in its notes field. define host{ use generic-router-intrust ; Inherit default values from a template host_name intrust-bob-ds1 ; The name we're giving to this switch alias Intrust BOB T1 ; A longer name associated with the switch address 66.243.142.155 notes TEST icon_image switch.gif statusmap_image switch.gd2 hostgroups intrust-office ; Host groups this switch is associated with } This is the debug log output: [1201644173.199143] [032.2] [pid=30977] Raw Command: /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nNotes: $HOSTNOTES$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ [1201644173.199170] [032.2] [pid=30977] Processed Command: /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: PROBLEM\nHost: intrust-bob-ds1\nState: DOWN\nAddress: 66.243.142.155\nInfo: (Host Check Timed Out)\n\nNotes: TEST The problem is that the processed command gets truncated and a notification never gets sent. If I change the notify-host-by-email definition and replace $HOSTNOTES$ with another variable, $HOSTOUTPUT$ for instance, the debug log shows this: [1201644289.198269] [032.2] [pid=30977] Raw Command: /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nNotes: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ [1201644289.198292] [032.2] [pid=30977] Processed Command: /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: PROBLEM\nHost: intrust-bob-ds1\nState: DOWN\nAddress: 66.243.142.155\nInfo: (Host Check Timed Out)\n\nNotes: (Host Check Timed Out)\n\nDate/Time: Tue Jan 29 16:04:49 CST 2008" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "** PROBLEM Host Alert: intrust-bob-ds1 is DOWN **" <A href="mailto:pat@nicsys.net">pat@nicsys.net</A> The notification gets sent successfully. I know I have the syntax correct because I have it working with other variables - it just wont work when I plug in the variable that I want: $HOSTNOTES$ I feel like I've found a bug but I really don't want to bother the developers if I've missed something obvious. Has anyone else encountered this?</DIV></BODY></HTML>