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
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 there a
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 \
