nagios not notifying by email [RESOLVED]

[jeff vier]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:30 -0600, Ryan Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

what was it, for people searching the archives in the future?


> >> -----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?

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