Is there a way to include the result ofcheck_nagiosin the subject line of an e-mail?

[Hatten, Ken]

Marc -

Not sure this is what you are looking for, but...  I often exec a call
to mailx with an embedded exec in the subject space with a command
string like this (note the backtick (grave) characters ` around the
commands):

cat <some file> | mailx -s "`uname -n` at `date +%H%M%S`"  <email alias>

and I get an email with the subject: "Hostname at 153211" (for example)
.

I tried this one:

	echo | mailx -s "`cat <some file>`" emailalias

and the first line of the file was the subject, the rest of the file
made up the body.  So, if you command delivered more than 1 line, only
the first would be in the subject; the rest in the body.

Regards,
 
Ken Hatten
CM Ops Admin

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc
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Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to include the result
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rimbert Rivera
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:25 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to include the result of
> check_nagiosin the subject line of an e-mail?
> 
> I have a Cron job running every two hours that runs check_nagios and
e-
> mails us the result.  Here's the command I'm using:
> 
> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F
/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log
> -e 5 -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios | mail -s"Nagios Status check
> (heartbeat)" email at domain.com
> 
> The command e-mails the check_nagios output as the e-mail body.  Is
there
> a way to put it in the subject line instead?  I cannot figure it out.
I
> don't think mail will let me do what I want.  Is there something else
I
> can use?  I'm using RedHat 9.


echo '' | mail -s "`/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F
/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios`"
email at domain.com

--
Marc



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