putting a Subject into the notification email

[Hari Sekhon]

I use the mail command rather than the sendmail command.

This will still use your local smtp mechanism.

printf "blah blah" | mail -s "this is the subject" me at mydomain.com

hth

-h

Hari Sekhon



Artyom Khmelnitsky wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> What command do you use to give the notification email a subject. Right now, if a box is down, it just sends an email with no subject at all. It would be nice to put a subject in there that has the Host's IP for instance.
>
> Currently, here's what we have:
>
> # 'host-notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
> command_name host-notify-by-email
> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /usr/lib/sendmail "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> }
>
> I take it the part after '| /usr/lib/senmail' is the subject of the email. Anyone know why it does not process it? We currently usq qmail server.
>
> Thank you for the help!
>
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