all notifications failing

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 16/04/10 09:49 AM, Scott, Ewan wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  [...]
> 
> # 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

Use strace to find out what fails. strace will print all syscalls used
by the traced program and wou will see which one (including parameters)
failed.


Don't forget to trace the mail program, not printf. i.e.:

> $/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\nNotification " | strace
> /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert:
> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **"
ewscott at scotborders.gov.uk 2>/tmp/mail_trace.log


Here I added "strace" before "/usr/bin/mail" and redirected stderr to
"/tmp/mail_trace.log". Then you can look at "/tmp/mail_trace.log" for
something like a failed open() call or for ENOPERM. The argument to the
failed call should indicate which file failed.


- --
Thomas
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