alerts not reaching me

[Marc Powell]

----Original Message----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Payal
Rathod Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 1:48 PM To:
nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] alerts
not reaching me 

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:14:06PM -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
> > 
> > In the log entry above, there is no '/bin/mail' after the '|' in
> > ...'Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 570.19 ms" |  -s "**'... Therefor the
> > shell is looking for a command named '-s' to pipe the printf output
> > to which of course doesn't exist. Does your command definition
> > include '| /bin/mail -s "**'...?
> 
> I have in my misccommands.cfg,
> 
> # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-email
> 	        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 1.0
> 		        *****\n\nNotification Type:
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
> $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional
> Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" |  -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert -
> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ }    
> 
> What do I change?

# 'notify-by-email' command definition
define command{
        command_name    notify-by-email
	        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 1.0
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$"
| /path/to/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert -
$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
		        }

Replace '/path/to/mail' with the location of your 'mail' program,
usually /bin/mail or /usr/bin/mail.

--
Marc


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