Custom command

Tedman Eng teng at dataway.com
Thu Feb 2 19:02:24 CET 2006


Are you testing from commandline from the context of the nagios user?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Fitzpatrick [mailto:lists at webtent.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:22 AM
> To: Nagios
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Custom command
> 
> 
> Thanks to Jim here on the list, I have defined a command to send an
> e-mail using a sendEmail perl script. From the command line, 
> the script
> works fine. When I try to use the new notify-by-sendEmail as the
> service_notification_commands for my contact, Nagios logs the 
> message as
> sent, which never makes it to the SMTP server and I get this error in
> the /var/log/messages:
> 
> Feb  2 10:13:39 esmtp kernel: pid 14486 (nagios), uid 2004: exited on
> signal 10
> 
> I have the same permissions on the file as the other commands that
> Nagios uses in the minimail.cfg, like /usr/bin/mail:
> 
> esmtp# ls -lah /usr/local/bin/sendEmail
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    62K Feb  1 17:58 /usr/local/bin/sendEmail
> 
> Can someone suggest why I get this error? I simplified the new command
> without the variables like below, I can copy and paste this command to
> the command line and the message gets sent successfully:
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-sendEmail
>         command_line    /usr/local/bin/sendEmail -f
> nagios at esmtp.webtent.net -t robert at webtent.com -s 10.0.0.40 
> -m "Body" -u
> "Subject"
>         }
> 
> define contact{
>         contact_name                    webtent
>         alias                           WebTent
>         service_notification_period     24x7
>         host_notification_period        24x7
>         service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
>         host_notification_options       d,r
>         service_notification_commands   notify-by-sendEmail
>         host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
>         email                           support at mydomain.com
>         }
> 
> 
> -- 
> Robert
> 
> 
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