Scott, Ewan wrote: > > Hi > > > > All my notifications are failing - no emails are being generated. Can > someone confirm that it is the *nagios* user which sends the emails > and not *root*. If this is the case then I seem to have created a file > permissions problem on the system somehow and the nagios user cannot > send mail. (This used to work until I installed *php5-cli* and ran a > *notifications* script I picked up on exchange.nagios.org). > Mail will be sent as the user Nagios runs under. > > Although it is not really a nagios issue if anyone knows what the > temporary file is that it is trying to open - see below - please let > me know. (The same issue occurs for other non-root users sending mail). > > > > Thanks. > > Ewan > > > > # id > > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) > > # /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\nNotification " | > /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: > $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" ewsc...@scotborders.gov.uk > > # ### This has sent mail successfully. > > # > > # su - nagios > > $ /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\nNotification " | > /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: > $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" ewsc...@scotborders.gov.uk > > mail: Cannot open temporary file: Permission denied > > Cannot open temporary file >
Sounds like permissions on your temporary directory (most likely /tmp or /var/tmp) are screwed up, or you've got a full disk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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