Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread admin
I did get sendmail to work by using the -f flag in commands.cfg, and modifying some permissions, but mailx worked perfectly after the install, so I went with that. Thanks for the help! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Smith
try linking mail to sendmail. ls -aFl /usr/bin/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 12 2006 /usr/bin/mail -> /usr/sbin/sendmail* -Robert Josh Yost wrote: >> I inserted "sendmail", but still get the err. I am working on the syntax >> to see if I can resolve the error. What does everyone else have

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is within your MTA - you'll have to read up (in sendmail's documentation) on how to set your nagios shell user as a trusted user within sendmailhassles tells sendmail the users that are allowed to usehasslehasslehassle it in "program-mode" (i.e. local submi

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread admin
> This is within your MTA - you'll have to read up (in sendmail's > documentation) on how to set your nagios shell user as a trusted user > within sendmailhassles tells sendmail the users that are allowed to usehasslehasslehassle > it in "program-mode" (i.e. local submission, not over an SMTP conne

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trick is to (while logged in or "su'd" to the Nagios user) manually type out a command and keep adjusting until it works - then put that into Nagios. e.g. echo "Test e-mail"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -s "Host DOWN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, now we're getting somewhere...

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Josh Yost
> I inserted "sendmail", but still get the err. I am working on the syntax > to see if I can resolve the error. What does everyone else have installed > that the "mail" command works. I really don't care what MTA is used, just > so I can get the sample, and new configs to work. I assumed on the ins

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread admin
> The trick is to (while logged in or "su'd" to the Nagios user) manually > type out a command and keep adjusting until it works - then put that > into Nagios. > e.g. echo "Test e-mail"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -s "Host DOWN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, now we're getting somewhere. Here is the error I g

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you "su" to the Nagios user, and just run "mail" - does it yield anything, or "command not found"? The error seems to be (as someone previously said) it's piping your notification text to " -s "Host DOWN..."" which isn't a valid command. You need to change your notifi

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread admin
> If you "su" to the Nagios user, and just run "mail" - does it yield > anything, or "command not found"? > > The error seems to be (as someone previously said) it's piping your > notification text to " -s "Host DOWN..."" which isn't a valid command. > You need to change your notification command t

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks fine to me. The problem is in your host-notify-by-email definition in the misccommands.cfg file. If you look below you have; sterilizing Host Unreachable (10.10.4.89)\n\nDate/Time: Fri Feb 16 09:10:01 CST > 2007\n" | -s "Host DOWN alert for relay-1.domain.c

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread admin
> That looks fine to me. The problem is in your host-notify-by-email > definition in the misccommands.cfg file. If you look below you have; >sterilizing > Host Unreachable (10.10.4.89)\n\nDate/Time: Fri Feb 16 09:10:01 CST > > 2007\n" | -s "Host DOWN alert for relay-1.domain.com!" > [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Smith
>Host Unreachable (10.10.4.89)\n\nDate/Time: Fri Feb 16 09:10:01 CST > 2007\n" | -s "Host DOWN alert for relay-1.domain.com!" [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > resulted in a return code of 127. Make sure the script or binary you are > trying to execute actually exists... > There is a quoting error causing y

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Gavin Conway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > define contact{ > contact_namenagiosadmin > alias Nagios Admin > service_notification_period 24x7 > host_notification_period24x7 > service_notification_optionsw,u,c,r >

Re: [Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running 2.7 on an Ubuntu server, with sendmail. I have read the docs, > but am having trouble here. According to the examples given I have "define > contact" set up correctly. I also have an alias "nagiosadmin" in > /etc/aliases. Here is my config, and the error I am

[Nagios-users] email notice problem

2007-02-16 Thread admin
I am running 2.7 on an Ubuntu server, with sendmail. I have read the docs, but am having trouble here. According to the examples given I have "define contact" set up correctly. I also have an alias "nagiosadmin" in /etc/aliases. Here is my config, and the error I am getting below. The error is occu