Problem calling a notify command

[Andreas Ericsson]

Darren Harrison wrote:
> I'm still running Nagios v1.0

Which is terribly outdated. You should definitely upgrade to 1.2, as it 
contains a plethora of bugfixes compared to 1.0.

> and I'm having a problem trying to set up 
> text messaging.
> I've got a GSM module and I can send texts (using the gsmlib tools) from 
> both root and nagios users, but nothing seems to happen from Nagios 
> itself.

Create a wrapper script and make sure the script is executed properly. 
It's the only sensible solution to find out what's going on.

> I've looked in the nagios.log, message and syslog logs and can't find any 
> helpful error messages.
> 
> My question is, where should I be looking for error messages or output 
> from notify command calls?
> 

Wherever your notify command logs them, hence the wrapper script.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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