strange "CRITICAL" problem

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

That worked great, thanks. FYI, I think the SMTP server was Win2k. The
other one worked fine with Linux. 

--- Marc Powell <mpowell at ena.com> wrote:
> Your problem is more likely related to interpretations of the SMTP RFC
> as opposed to wireless networking. See the following URL for a fix. It's
> a patch to check_smtp from the plugins package.
> 
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/13608/2002/6/0/8924911/
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:joshuadfranklin at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:24 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] strange "CRITICAL" problem
> > 
> > I recently set up nagios to check about 30 network devices.
> > Everything seems to be working great, with the exception of
> > one email server that is networked over a 802.11b wireless connection.
> > Nagios *constantly* reports the SMTP service as "Critical", despite
> > a message of "SMTP OK - 0 second response time".
> > 
> > At first I tried adding a custom check_smtp command with a 30-second
> > timeout, but it still reported the same. I noticed that it always had
> > "Attempt 3/3" instead of "1/3" so I thought I might try setting
> > max_check_attempts higher. Setting it to 5 immediately made the status
> > page go to "Attempt 5/5". I thought this was weird to I set
> > max_check_attempts to 500 and restarted. Now it always reads "Attempt
> > 500/500"
> > This doesn't seem right.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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