check_mailq usage

[Upayavira]

kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org wrote:

> I have since migrated my mail server and my nagios server together 
> (onto the same box) and I still get the same error. IT was suggested 
> that I get the newest one via CVS. I am lost on knowing how to do that 
> though. If there are other ideas/solutions also, please let me know.

Try at a prompt:
/usr/bin/mailq

What do you get?

Basically, the perl script is expecting either the word "empty" or a 
number on the line that contains "mqueue". But it seems that yours isn't 
doing that.

Upayavira

>  
> gentoo1 nagios # mailq
> Mail queue is empty
> gentoo1 nagios # /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -w5 -c10 -v
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
> /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 110.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
> /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 110.
>  | mailq =
> Use of uninitialized value in exit at /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq 
> line 111.
> gentoo1 nagios #
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Drew Kollasch
>     *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2004 3:18 PM
>     *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>     *Subject:* RE: [Nagios-users] check_mailq usage
>
>     IC...well that's no fun now is it?
>     This machine DOES have a mailq on it, its just not the one that I
>     want to check.
>      
>
>     -------------------------------------------------------
>     Drew Kollasch
>     Network/Desktop Technician
>     Buena Vista Regional Medical Center
>     kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org
>     712-732-4455x2153
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         *From:* Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
>         *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2004 3:17 PM
>         *To:* Drew Kollasch; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>         *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] check_mailq usage
>
>         The plugin expects to be run on the machine with the mail
>         queue you want to check. That's probably why it's failing.
>         Like the majority of the plugins that check non-network
>         related items, there is no support for connecting to a remote
>         host to check local stats. You'll need to use a transport
>         mechanism such as NRPE or check-by-ssh.
>
>         --
>         Marc
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org <kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org>
>         To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>         <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>         Sent: Fri Apr 16 15:00:15 2004
>         Subject: [Nagios-users] check_mailq usage
>
>         I am attempting to get the check_mailq check to work, but am
>         having some troubles.
>         Executing from the CLI,
>         ...
>         gentoo1 nagios # /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -w 5 -c 10
>         Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
>         /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 110.
>         Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
>         /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 110.
>          | mailq =
>         Use of uninitialized value in exit at
>         /usr/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 111.
>         ...
>
>         any ideas? also the mailq that I wish to check IS on a
>         different host, how would I specify that?
>         Thanks in advance.
>





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