hi, it works fine now. i had problems with my default gateway settings. because of that the mailserver was unreachable. ;) stupid mistake. but itīs good to know, what you said about the Time Period Specification. Thanks a lot
Philippe PS: the strange things work. but i fix it. itīs better. > > hello, > > i installed mon and configured it. when i test it (shut a daemon down), > > mon.cgi says that the service is down and that mail will be sent. but on > > the account i donīt receive any mail. > > > ># /etc/mon.cf > > > > hostgroup test 10.0.0.1 > > > > watch test > > service ping > > description ping mailserver > > interval 5m > > monitor fping.monitor > > period wd {Mon-Sun} hr {0am-11pm} > > alert mail.alert [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > alertevery 5m > > > > something wrong with the configuration? > > any idea? > > > You've got a couple things which are slightly strange, but they shouldn't > cause any problems. I suspect the actual problem is that your > alert script > either doesn't exist or isn't executable. > > The strange things are: > The second half of your period statement is unnecessary. If you want an > 'allways' period, any single range that covers everything will work, so > either 'wd {Mon-Sun}' or 'hr {12am-11pm}'. But both shouldn't be a > problem. (Though Time::Period doesn't claim to support "0am", > but (testing > it) it looks like it works) > > Also, on a test whose interval is 5 minutes, an alertevery of 5 > minutes is > pointless. (Mon only alerts after events. If your interval was 1 hour, > you'd never get an alert more often then once an hour.) But again, that > shouldn't cause any problems. > > Have you looked at syslog, to see if anything is getting reported. If > there is nothing there you might want to enable more syslog logging, > 'daemon.info' will get you lots of stuff from mon. (assuming you haven't > set the syslog facility to something other then daemon in your mon.cfg) > > > -David Nolan _______________________________________________ Mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon