For the love of god please stop top-posting. On 10/4/07, Nedim Bicic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your definitly right about only sending from the root (usr/bin/sendmail) > not a typo i tried that since /bin/mail didnt work for me so i thought i > would try it out cause thats all it can do i tried placing that in the > commands cfg obviusly didnt work... now i also tried making the user root > and gave it permission but now i think i played way to much with mail and > sendmail i screwed it up big time with the permissions.....wat i think will > end up doing is reinstalling nagios again..crap
Did you check that /bin/mail actually exists? If it doesn't, you might consider installing the package which provides it. > I didnt know that sendmail and mail are two different i guess i was wrong .. > i mean i did installation word by word as written in manaul i have > everything working expet email ? Just because you followed the nagios install guide word for word doesn't mean you did it properly. If the system you're building nagios on isn't sane, then you're going to have many other issues no matter how closely you follow the nagios directions. Since you're on RHEL, why are you building nagios from scratch? Why not use the rpms which are built for RHEL and listed on the download section of the nagios page? > one small question is bin/mail a relay client ? and where is $contactemail$ > defined anywhere except commands.cfg The $contactemail$ variable is defined in your contact definition, and is set by (of all magical options) the 'email' section. > i see in the nagios.log file as mention in my eearlier posts that i see its > trying to send it out but keeps getting line code error 127 unkown email > address (which is my gmail) No. The error you referenced earlier stated that nagios didn't have permission to, or could not find /bin/mail or /usr/bin/printf.... Did you check the mail log for sendmail to see if it actually got the message but failed to send, or are you simply looking at the nagios.log? Given the vast amounts of typos and misplacings of the /, I would very much recommend that you go back over your configs and make sure you haven't typed them as accurately as you've formed your emails. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null