[Xymon] xymon-rclient.sh

[Jeremy Laidman]

Great news. Thanks for the update.  I'll add FreeNAS to the compatibility
list, with the shell caveat.
 On 01/08/2014 4:02 PM, "Kris Springer" <kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:

>  Well done!!  Adding the '/bin/bash' to the cmd line worked!  Results are
> flowing in and all is well.  Thanks for help.  Good job.  :-)
>
> Thank you.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Kris Springer
>
>
>  On 7/31/2014 7:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>
>  On 1 August 2014 10:45, Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at centurylink.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes. The xymon-rclient script scp’s the proper script from ~/client/bin
>> to the client and runs it.
>
>
> Actually, that's not correct.  It uses "ssh" (or rsh, or whatever you want
> to give it) to run a shell, then pipes the contents of the
> xymonclient-freebsd.sh file into the pipe.  Essentially like this:
>
>  $ cat /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-freebsd.sh | ssh -T -i
> path/to/keyfile hostname
>
>  and the output is saved into a temporary file to be fed into $XYMON
> $XYMSRV "@", but prefixed with a "client" message header.
>
>  If you run that "cat ..." command manually it should give you client
> data as its output.  Try it and see.
>
>  If it works, then xymon-rclient should also work and might have a bug.
>  If this doesn't work, then we can reproduce the problem outside of
> xymon-rclient and it will be easier to work on.
>
>  I wonder if it's to do with the shell on the FreeNAS.  If it's a
> non-standard shell, you might need to force a shell in the ssh parameters,
> with something like:
>
>  cmd(ssh -T -i /home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient root@%{H}
> /bin/bash),ostype(freebsd)
>
>  J
>
>
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