not receiving the nagios notifications

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Felipe Tocchetto
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 8:48 AM
> To: Marc Powell; Nagios Users Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] not receiving the nagios notifications
> 
> Hi Marc
> 
> I changed the command in the misccomands.cfg to the one you suggest,
> it creates the file, and here is the output.
> 
> I supress some of my host and IP information.
> 
> bash-3.00# more /tmp/host-notify
> 
> /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****
> 
> Notification Type: PROBLEM
> Host: host.xx-xx.xx.x
> State: DOWN
> Address: 200.000.00.00
> Info: CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds
> 
> Date/Time: Fri Jul 28 10:27:14 BRT 2006
> " | /usr/bin/mail -s "Host DOWN alert for host.xx-xx.xx.x!"
> felipe at tocchetto.com
> 
> Information about my OS:
> 
> SunOS 5.10 Generic_118844-26 i86pc i386 i86pc
> 
> I notice somethig:
> 
> bash-3.00# printf TEST123 | mail -s "test mail to felipe"
> felipe at tocchetto.com
> 
> Without the "!" in the end of the subject it was sent with no problems

Yup. I suspected that might be an issue. You can remove the '!' or use
''s around the subject to prevent the interpretation of the !  like --

 .... | /usr/bin/mail -s 'Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!'
$CONTACTEMAIL$'

--
Marc

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