sendmail logs

[Maurizio Santini]

You are right, it's the SMTP check that generates that entry in the
logs.

Thank you very much.

Maurizio



On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:10, Marc Powell wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Maurizio Santini
> > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:34 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] sendmail logs
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have the following question:  I have used the option "Disable
> > notifications for all services on this host" and the host itself for
> all
> > services/hosts monitored by Nagios.  Now if I look at sendmail's logs
> > there are entries like "did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during
> > connection to MTA" every 2-3 mins.  I know that is nagios because if I
> > stop it I don't get those entries in the maillog anymore.
> > 
> > Does anyone know why Nagios is "checking" if sendmail is alive and how
> > to prevent Nagios from doing that?
> 
> You must have nagios checking the SMTP service on that machine.
> Disabling notifications for a host or service does not disable checks
> and only prevents email notifications for problem hosts and services
> going out. Use "Disable checks of all services on this host" or for a
> specific service, "Disable checks of this service" to stop the checks
> themselves. If you want to permanently stop the check, remove the
> service definition from your config files.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> 
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