Epager question

[Nolan Martin]

>From the original/referenced e-mail by Steve Loughran:

* * *

you either have to set the hostname of the host to a fully qualified
and
`real` externally visible hostname (or at least a hostname that has a
valid
MX record for it), or you can cheat and tell sendmail what host it
should
think it is by editing /etc/sendmail, find the line that looks like:

    #Dj$w.Foo.COM

and then uncomment and change it to:

    Djmyreal.hostname.com

the hostname **MUST** be a name that has either a real name to IP
lookup in
the outside world, or **MUST** have a valid MX record tied to that
hostname
(or most anti-spoofing rules in mail servers will deny it)

Steve


* * *



>>> Mark Guzzo <marguz at ameritech.net> 09/24/02 02:23PM >>>
I looked for the post, but I could not find it. Can you please send
it.



On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:31:46 -0500
"Nolan Martin" <Nolan.Martin at co.travis.tx.us> wrote:

> Yes, Metrocall does do a reverse lookup.
> 
> If you configure your sendmail with an organization that ties to a
> valid MX record, you should be in good shape.
> 
> Check out Steve Loughran's posting on 8/22/2002 around 3:16 PM
(subject
> RE: mail notifications).
> 
> Nolan
> 
> 
> >>> Terry Simons <galimore at mac.com> 09/24/02 11:42AM >>>
> It looks like page.metrocall.com might be checking the name of the
host
>  
> that is sending the mail...
> 
> Do you have valid forward and reverse records set up for your host?
> 
> Is k1044nm.shsystem.org actually the name of your host?
> 
> I could be completely wrong though... can anyone else elaborate?
> 
> - Terry
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 09:54 AM, Mark Guzzo wrote:
> 
> > Hello again,
> > Still having problems with Epage.
> >
> > I tried this as root...
> > mail -s test 115001675 at page.metrocall.com 
> > and it still did not work.
> >
> > I then checked the root mail for a return reason on the mail and
> found  
> > this...
> >
> > The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > 115001675 at page.metrocall.com 
> >     (reason: 501 <root at k1044nm.shsystem.org>... Sender domain must 

> > exist)
> >
> >
> > What! I'm really a sendmail dumba$$! Can someone please help :-(
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:12:11 +0200
> > "Tom DE BLENDE" <tdeblend at gcc.dhl.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Make sure your epager client is not returning any output back to
> >> Nagios. Redirect all output to /dev/null or check whether it has
> got
> >> some kind of a -quiet switch.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> Mark Guzzo wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Strange, the mail command will work on the command line to send a

> 
> >>> email but when
> >>> I try to send a email-page, I get nothing. No error or nothing.
But
>  
> >>> if I use my
> >>> email client to sent an epage, it works.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:42:47 -0400
> >>> "Bishop, Dean" <dean.bishop at tcdsb.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> i just got mine working, the problem: quotes were incorrect in
> >>>> misccommands.cfg
> >>>>
> >>>> here is my entry:
> >>>>
> >>>>       command_line    /bin/echo -e
> >>>>
> 'Svc:$SERVICEDESC$\nHost:$HOSTNAME$\nIP:$HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo:$OUTPUT$

> >>>> \n' |
> >>>> /bin/mail -s '$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
> >>>> $SERVICESTATE$' $CONTACTPAGER$
> >>>>
> >>>> and my contact has a pager entry of 4165551212 at mrpager.com 
> >>>>
> >>>> hth,
> >>>> dean
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Mark Guzzo [mailto:marguz at ameritech.net] 
> >>>> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:28 PM
> >>>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> >>>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Epager question
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I can't seem to get the epager notification to work. I have
Nagios
>  
> >>>> running
> >>>> on a
> >>>> basic RedHat 7.3 install.
> >>>> Email does work just not epager.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any info if the scripts need to be changed for my install?
> >>>>
> >>>> ^^^ got Linux ^^^
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Mark Guzzo
> >>>> Citrix Administrator
> >>>>
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> >>> ^^^ got Linux ^^^
> >>>
> >>> Mark Guzzo
> >>> Citrix Administrator
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> > ^^^ got Linux ^^^
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^^^ got Linux ^^^


Mark Guzzo
Citrix Administrator

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