Email Notifications

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Gregory Wong wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am having a problems with email notifications. They are not being sent. Below is the command from the commands.cfg that is being executed. I changed /usr/bin/printf to /usr/bin/mail. Is this wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    host-notify-by-email
>         command_line    /usr/bin/mail "%b" "***** Nagios 2.6 *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" |  -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$
>         }

Yes, that command is most definitely wrong, and will not work.

In particular, the "|  -s" portion is going to cause major breakage.

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