email notifications not being kicked off.

[Scott Sugar]

Im not sure if this might help, but try switching to the nagios user and running the copied notify-by-email command to ensure that the permissions for the nagios user will allow you to use the mail program.
 
Scott

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Edward Ford
Sent: Fri 8/5/2005 5:19 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] email notifications not being kicked off.


I had the same issue and fixed it using this forum. The answer is within the forum. I do remember editing a file to add the smtp server to it, the smtp server for the company on the Linux Box. 
 
Eddie
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jesse Driskill
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 5:07 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] email notifications not being kicked off.
 
Hi all, 
 
            I've been stuck on this problem for several days and haven't; made much headway. None of the email alerts from any of my systems work at all. I've confirmed that I can send mail from the systems, and that if I copy/paste the 'notify-by-email' command contents is the screen (substituting macros of course), that the email comes. The log file does not have any email errors at all... it notes the host go down soft, then hard, but  no action is taken. The problem seems to be that nagios isn't trying to send the notifications at all. 
 
I've confirmed that _all _ notifications are on wherever they are defined (hosts and services as well as in the nagios.cfg)
The contact_groups are correct
contacts have everything defined for notification except the 'n'. 
notification timeperiods are correct. (24x7)
log_notification is enabled
 
 
I don't know where else to look. Is there a debugging setting I can enable to see what notification filter is failing? Or if one's failing at all?
 
 
Thanks, 
--jesse
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