Nagios and email

[Kevin Keane]

It's probably Nagios. Does the blizzard of emails stop when you stop the 
Nagios service?

How about stopping the Nagios server, turning off all notifications in 
the configuration files, and then restarting it?

Peter Doherty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a kind of custom nagios setup, so maybe this is a byproduct of  
> that...
> I had to reboot my nagios server today, and it didn't come right back  
> up.  By the time it did, it realized that the service checks weren't  
> fresh, and started sending out lots of notifications.  I stopped  
> sendmail to keep from flooding my inbox...so here's the question:
>
> I just want to clear out the outgoing email queue.  mailq and sendmail  
> -bp both show nothing queued up.  When I restart sendmail, it starts  
> sending again.
> Has nagios passed all the emails over to sendmail, and I just need to  
> clear out sendmail's queue, or is nagios holding onto them while  
> sendmail isn't running, and then once it sees sendmail running, it  
> starts dumping email into the queue?
>
> Which is it, and how do I clear them from the queue?
>
> Thank you.
> --Peter
>
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