nagios not notifying by email [RESOLVED]

[Ryan Wilcox]

error existed between chair and keyboard... thanks for your suggestions
marc, it made me think of something that i didn't check before my
inquiry.

thanks
ryan

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc Powell
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:53 PM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios not notifying by email
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-
>> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Wilcox
>> > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:36 AM
>> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios not notifying by email
>> >
>> > I am having a similar type problem... I have searched around,
didn't
>> > find anything that was exactly the same. Here are my settings:
>> >
>> > enable_notifications=1
>> > retain_state_information=1
>> >
>> > Notifications were working fine in our 1.x build, after I upgraded
to
>> > 2.x my email, pager, etc., notifications stopped working.
>> >
>> > Viewing my event log, I see that the notifications are actually
>> getting
>> > logged, however they are not being sent to the recipients. Thinking
>> > about this more, it sounds like a linux problem not my nagios
configs?
>> >
>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> What have you tried to diagnose or correct the problem before coming
>> here?
>> 
>> It appears that your host and service definitions are probably OK if
>> you're seeing notification attempts in nagios.log.
>> 
>> Did you verify you're using the correct (new) macros in your
>> notification command?
>> 
>> Have you tried running your notification command from the command
line
>> as the nagios user, substituting in appropriate text for the macros?
>> What happens?
>> 
>> Have you looked in your mail server logs to determine if it sees the
>> notification attempt? Queues the mail? Attempts to deliver it?
Bounces
>> it?
>> 
>> Have you tried 'echo'ing your notification command to a file to
verify
>> that it has the correct syntax and format?
>> 
>> --
>> Marc
>> 
>> 
>> 
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