[Nagiosplug-devel] Check_oracle

[Khan, Ali]

Hello Sean, same problem, its only if i remove the $ sign does the
correct name get resolved.

regards,
Ali

-----Original Message-----
From: sean finney [mailto:seanius at seanius.net]
Sent: 21 March 2006 22:20
To: Khan, Ali
Cc: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Check_oracle


hi ali,

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:43:27PM -0000, Khan, Ali wrote:
> --db)
>     pmonchk=`ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -c "ora_pmon_${2}$"`
> 
> The above line has an extra '$' at the end, please change it to
> 
> --db)
>     pmonchk=`ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -c "ora_pmon_${2}"`
> 
> The database is reported as down even though it is up as the oracle
sid cannot be resolved due to the trailing $

without knowing a lot about what's going on, it seems that this trailing
'$' was intended to mean "end of line" in the grep regexp.  thus,
would it make more sense to replace it with "ora_pmon_${2}\$" ?

in any case, good catch!

thanks,
	sean


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