On Fri, 30 Nov, 13:20 +1000 Nick Pratley wrote: > Hi, I need to be able to send notifications via SMS in the event that the > email servers are unavailable, or the internet connection is down. There is > a server on the same network as the Nagios host that has a modem installed > and uses SMS Tools 3 to send messages. To send a message all I need to do is > place a file in a certain directory on that server, in a simple format, and > it does the rest. > > Any ideas what the problem could be, when it runs manually from the command > line but not through the nagios daemon?
Having just solved this problem this week: chmod g+w /var/spool/sms/outgoing chgrp nagios /var/spool/sms/outgoing This should enable nagios to write to the directory using your script. Regards, Peter.
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