[Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign

2011-07-18 Thread Frank Van Damme
(Sorry for possible reposts. I'll stop reposting the day Gmane actually works). Does anybody know how to use a parameter to a check command that starts with a dollar sign? Nagios interprets the dollar as if I want to substitute the variable with a macro. I tried escaping, but then I get a literal

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign

2011-07-18 Thread Michael Friedrich
Frank Van Damme wrote: (Sorry for possible reposts. I'll stop reposting the day Gmane actually works). Does anybody know how to use a parameter to a check command that starts with a dollar sign? Nagios interprets the dollar as if I want to substitute the variable with a macro. I tried

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign

2011-07-18 Thread Frank Van Damme
Op 18-07-11 10:16, Michael Friedrich schreef: Frank Van Damme wrote: (Sorry for possible reposts. I'll stop reposting the day Gmane actually works). Does anybody know how to use a parameter to a check command that starts with a dollar sign? Nagios interprets the dollar as if I want to

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign

2011-07-18 Thread Michael Friedrich
Frank Van Damme wrote: Op 18-07-11 10:16, Michael Friedrich schreef: Frank Van Damme wrote: (Sorry for possible reposts. I'll stop reposting the day Gmane actually works). Does anybody know how to use a parameter to a check command that starts with a dollar sign? Nagios interprets the

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign

2011-07-18 Thread Frank Van Damme
2011/7/18 Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at: you didn't mention that in the first place. w/o any examples it will be hard to guess. true. I was hoping for some generic escaping rules :) dollars at the start have a meaning. -- Frank Van Damme No part of this copyright message

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign

2011-07-18 Thread Jim Avery
On 18 July 2011 14:37, Frank Van Damme frank.vanda...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping for some generic escaping rules :) If only! I usually end up using a generous portion of trial-and-error to find something that works. Sometimes you have to escape the escape characters that will be used