Notify-by-email on Solaris 8 doesn't populate the subject

[Marc Powell]

On Friday, March 26, 2004 9:31 AM, Narayanasamy, Sundar shared with us:

> Hello,
> 
> Whenever I get a warning or error notification from my Nagios
> installation on my Solaris box, it comes with empty subject line. How
> do I fix it?  
> 
> This is what I have
> 
> # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-email
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVIC 
> EDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
>         $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional
> Info:\n\n$OUTP UT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert -
> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ }  
> 
> Any help is appreciated.


Take a look at 'man mail' and make sure that the -s switch is used to
specify the subject on the command line. It may be different than other
distributions (I don't have a solaris machine handy). You might also try
using single quotes ' instead of double quotes " around the subject
portion of the command. Your host aliases or service descriptions don't
use any special characters in them do they? Anything outside
[A-Za-z0-9+_-]?

--
Marc


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