Alert problem

[Andreas Ericsson]

Gerard Marcel wrote:
> he can't send an email by simply creating a file.  The command itself
> is valid, but by itself it is useless.  That was my point.
> 

It is most definitely not useless. The existence or absence of a file 
could well trigger some other alerting tool.

> 
> GM
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:44:37 -0600, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>>>admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Gerard Marcel
>>>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:10 PM
>>>To: Guillaume RENARD
>>>Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alert problem
>>>
>>>Are you making an alert text file?  The command_line should actually
>>>be a command that does something such a script.  this "command_line
>>>/bin/touch /home/nagios/alerte" is incorrect.
>>
>>Huh? In what way is /bin/touch any different than /bin/echo or any other
>>executable on the file system? Nagios makes no distinction between them
>>and simply attempts to run the process. The command definition below is
>>just as valid as one that sends you an alert email, it just performs a
>>different task. In this case, the existence of the file
>>/home/nagios/alerte is sufficient for his purposes.
>>
>>--
>>Marc
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:02:53 +0100, Guillaume RENARD
>>><guillaume.renard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>The host-notify by alerte is defines in misccommands.cfg :
>>>># 'host-notify-by-alerte' command definition
>>>>define command{
>>>>       command_name    host-notify-by-alerte
>>>>       command_line    /bin/touch /home/nagios/alerte
>>>>       }
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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