Email notification problems

[Rasmus Plewe]

Hello,

you are not using /bin/mail, you are actually piping it into "-s".


Rasmus


On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:31:50PM -0500, Shawn M. Green wrote:
> Hrm, interesting.  I figured that it was printf'ing the message & piping it
> into /bin/mail via the notifications cgi.  The -s would work there as the
> subject line.
> 
> Or am I mistaken on that assumption?
> 
> Thanks
> Shawn
> 
> On 7/17/03 9:11 AM, "Jeff Verheyen" <jeff.verheyen at ampersant.be> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It looks like that the result of the "printf" command is piped into a
> > (non existing) " -s " command.
> > 
> > Look right after the "|"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 03:10, Shawn M. Green wrote:
> >> I have nagios setup & monitoring about 30 hosts on our network.  Everything
> >> works well except for the email notifications and pages (email SMS) being
> >> sent out.  Here's a snip from the nagios.log with the particular error:
> >> 
> >> [1058403710] Warning: Attempting to execute the command "/usr/bin/printf
> >> "%b" "***** Nagios  *****\n\nNotification Type: PROBLEM\n\nService: Current
> >> Users\nHost: Monitoring Server\nAddress: 69.36.xx.xx\nState:
> >> WARNING\n\nDate/Time: Wed Jul 16 20:01:50 CDT 2003\n\nAdditional
> >> Info:\n\nUSERS WARNING - 5 users currently logged in" |  -s "** PROBLEM
> >> alert - Monitoring Server/Current Users is WARNING **" 911 at xxxxxxxx.com"
> >> resulted in a return code of 127.  Make sure the script or binary you are
> >> trying to execute actually exists...
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Nagios is running on a gentoo machine w/ sendmail installed & running fine
> >> (other services sending email thru it just fine).  Also installed mailx, as
> >> it's not a standard installed package.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Shawn


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