Newbie: Nagios email notificatoin

Damian Gerow damian at sentex.net
Wed Sep 3 21:41:13 CEST 2003


Thus spake Jeff Saucier (jeff.saucier at dolanmedia.com) [03/09/03 15:32]:
> First time user of this list.  Please feel free to let me know if I
> should be referencing another list.  I just setup Nagios on FreeBSD 4.8.
> Nagios is sending alerts as expected, but the "From" field in the email
> is "Nagios pseudo-user".  I let the setup routine create user: nagios
> and group: nagios because I didn't create them in advance.  How can I
> change it to read something else?

(This is more of a FreeBSD question than a Nagios question.)

Try this:

    % su
    Password: <enter your root password>
    # chfn nagios

And twiddle away.  You're probably looking for the line that starts with
'Full Name:'.


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