Help - I am unable to send notifications

[jonathan williams]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:14 -0700, Marc Powell wrote:
> 
> On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:26 PM, jonathan williams wrote:
> >>
> 
> >> Umm..what can I say?  Wow.  OK.. I fixed that in the send_mail.pl
> >> file.  Any other steps I need to take once I did that to make it 
> >> work.
> >> I did re-run the sed-i command and still get the same error:
> >
> 
> Not unless you experience further errors.
> 
> > root at LOOKINIUM:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# sed -i '1s,.*,#!/usr/bin/
> > perl
> > -w,' check_sendmail.pl
> > sed: can't read check_sendmail.pl: No such file or directory
> 
> Ok. sed 101.
> 
> sed -i '1s,.*,#!/usr/bin/perl -w,' check_sendmail.pl
> 
> The above is a sed 1-liner. It performs an immediate action and then 
> exits. What action? Let's break it down --
> 
> sed : this is the command to be executed
> -i : this tells sed that it's going to be editing an existing file
> 1s : the start of the actual sed script. This means we're going to be 
> doing 1 substitution
> .* : this is what we're going to be looking for, essentially any 
> content on the line
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w : what the previous match will be replaced with
> check_sendmail.pl : The file that sed is going to be editing
> 
> The end result is that sed would replace the entire first line of the 
> file check_sendmail.pl, located in your current directory, with the 
> text '#!/usr/bin/perl -w'.
> 
> Your confusion is that the filename should have been check_mail.pl, 
> not check_sendmail.pl.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 


Thank you for that breakdown.  

I am still having the same error in my nagios.log:

"[1216749581] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
nagiosadmin;jwilliamspc;PrintSpooler;OK;service-notify-by-email;Spooler:
Started
[1216749581] Warning: Attempting to execute the command
"/usr/local/nagios/libexec/send_mail.pl -n "SERVICE RECOVERY" -h
"jwilliamspc" -s "OK" -a "10.10.113.51" -i "PrintSpooler - Spooler:
Started - check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l Spooler" -d "Tue Jul 22
10:59:41 PDT 2008" -e "jonathan.williams at us.g4s.com"" resulted in a
return code of 126.  Make sure the script or binary you are trying to
execute actually exists..."

The top line in the send_mail.pl script is indeed "#!/usr/bin/perl -w".
I am not sure what it does though.  Doesn't the # mean it is remarked?
I guess my confusion is that there is no such file on my system called
check_sendmail.pl or check_mail.pl.  I was unable to locate any of them.
There is only a check_mailq.  That is why when you state:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w : what the previous match will be replaced with
> check_sendmail.pl : The file that sed is going to be editing
> 
> The end result is that sed would replace the entire first line of the 
> file check_sendmail.pl, located in your current directory, with the 
> text '#!/usr/bin/perl -w'.
> 
> Your confusion is that the filename should have been check_mail.pl, 
> not check_sendmail.pl.

I get lost.  


> 
> 

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