Can\'t get notifcations to work!!! Read everything!

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Before you go tearing your hair out over Nagios, please confirm
that you can su to the nagios user and send *any* mail out to
the target address.

If you can't, you know where you need to focus your attention.

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: stlscott [mailto:stlscott at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:32 PM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Can\'t get notifcations to work!!! Read
> everything!
> 
> 
> 
> Please help - new to Nagios, have it working great except for 
> notofications.
> 
> I've read tons and tons of posts regarding this issue and 
> can't seem to locate the true solution - please help.
> 
> Info:
> Nagios 1.1
> Plugins 1.3
> OS: RH 8.0 stock
> 
> Problem: Notifications can't be forwarded because they don't 
> have a "From" user address. I can only assume that I'm 
> missing a config line in my misccommands.cfg file to put the 
> "from" address in - but I've tried and tried and can't get it 
> in the right place or maybe not the right command. Here is my 
> e-mail line from my misccommands.cfg file.
> 
> # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
> command_name notify-by-email
> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 
> *****nnNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$nnService: 
> $SERVICEDESC$nHost: $HOSTALIAS$nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$nState: 
> $SERVICESTATE$nnDate/Time: $DATETIME$nnAdditional 
> Info:nn$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert 
> - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" 
> $CONTACTEMAIL$ -u nagios
> }
> 
> You'll notice the "-u nagios" added on - this was an attempt 
> to add the "user" to the FROM address - no luck though!
> 
> HELP! 
> 
> 
> 
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