Actually, this is not just in Nagios; this is standard Unix escaping.
And it's not really 3 \. Rather, what is going on is that standard Unix
escaping is applied twice - first when parsing the config file, and
again when passing the arguments to the plugin.
In Unix, normally when you put a \ an
On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Janet Sullivan wrote:
> Of course, right after I sent that, I found a solution. It seems I
> can
> use 3 \s to escape a \. My path in the service definition becomes:
>
> localhost_definst_mp3mn_mp3_08_07streams
>
> ...and it works.
>
> Is th
Of course, right after I sent that, I found a solution. It seems I can
use 3 \s to escape a \. My path in the service definition becomes:
localhost_definst_mp3mn_mp3_08_07streams
...and it works.
Is there a list of all the ways to escape special characters in Nagios?
I want to check the disk space of a UNC path -
\\localhost\_definst_\mp3\mn_mp3_08_07\streams
>From the command line, I can check it fine (using check_nrpe2) if I
escape each \ like this:
localhost\\_definst_\\mp3\\mn_mp3_08_07\\streams
But when I try to use configure Nagios to check it, it
