all notifications failing

[Scott, Ewan]

Hi

All my notifications are failing - no emails are being generated. Can someone confirm that it is the nagios user which sends the emails and not root. If this is the case then I seem to have created a file permissions problem on the system somehow and the nagios user cannot send mail. (This used to work until I installed php5-cli and ran a notifications script I picked up on exchange.nagios.org).

Although it is not really a nagios issue if anyone knows what the temporary file is that it is trying to open - see below - please let me know. (The same issue occurs for other non-root users sending mail).

Thanks.
Ewan

# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
# /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\nNotification " | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert:  $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" ewscott at scotborders.gov.uk
# ### This has sent mail successfully.
#
# su - nagios
$ /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\nNotification " | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert:  $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" ewscott at scotborders.gov.uk
mail: Cannot open temporary file: Permission denied
Cannot open temporary file

System info:
# uname -a
Linux sbc-nagios-01 2.6.31-20-server #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:40:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# ### nagios 3.2.0
# dpkg --list | egrep mailutil
ii  libmailutils2                        1:2.0+dfsg1-2                              GNU Mail abstraction library
ii  mailutils                            1:2.0+dfsg1-2                              GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail
#





Ewan Scott
Technical Officer
Servers and Storage
Business & Technology Solutions
Scottish Borders Council
Council Headquarters
Newtown St Boswells
Melrose
TD6 0SA

01835 824000 ext 5374

ewscott at scotborders.gov.uk<mailto:ewscott at scotborders.gov.uk>
http://www.scotborders.gov.uk <blocked::http://www.scotborders.gov.uk />


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