add note about shell quote removal to address https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=661916&group_id=29880&atid=397597

git-svn-id: https://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk@543 f882894a-f735-0410-b71e-b25c423dba1c

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/urlize.c b/plugins/urlize.c
index 8d6fc3ad..b9217072 100644
--- a/plugins/urlize.c
+++ b/plugins/urlize.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
         }
 
         if (!found) {
-                printf ("%s problem - No data recieved from host\nCMD: %s\n", argv[0],
+                printf ("%s problem - No data recieved from host\nCMD: %s</A>\n", argv[0],
                                                 cmd);
                 exit (STATE_UNKNOWN);
         }
@@ -131,12 +131,25 @@ void
 print_help (const char *cmd)
 {
         print_revision (progname, "$Revision$");
-        printf
-                ("Copyright (c) 2000 Karl DeBisschop (kdebiss@alum.mit.edu)\n\n"
-                 "\nThis plugin wraps the text output of another command (plugin) in HTML\n"
-                 "<A> tags, thus displaying the plugin output in as a clickable link in\n"
-                 "the Nagios status screen.  The return status is the same as the invoked\n"
-                 "plugin.\n\n");
+        printf ("\
+Copyright (c) 2000 Karl DeBisschop (kdebiss@alum.mit.edu)\n\n\
+\nThis plugin wraps the text output of another command (plugin) in HTML\n\
+<A> tags, thus displaying the plugin output in as a clickable link in\n\
+the Nagios status screen.  The return status is the same as the invoked\n\
+plugin.\n\n");
         print_usage (cmd);
+        printf ("\n\
+Pay close attention to quoting to ensure that the shell passes the expected\n\
+data to the plugin. For example, in:\n\
+\n\
+    urlize http://example.com/ check_http -H example.com -r 'two words'\n\
+\n\
+the shell will remove the single quotes and urlize will see:\n\
+\n\
+    urlize http://example.com/ check_http -H example.com -r two words\n\
+\n\
+You probably want:\n\
+\n\
+    urlize http://example.com/ \"check_http -H example.com -r 'two words'\"\n");
         exit (STATE_OK);
 }