<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hari Sekhon wrote: <blockquote cite="mid44ABCDAB.9000105@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Rimbert Rivera wrote: <blockquote cite="midE1F190DAC247C64FAA46B38316FA151D04498DE9@EX-101.mail.navisite.com" type="cite"> <title>Is there a way to include the result of check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail?</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name="GENERATOR"> <div dir="ltr" align="left">Thanks, Hari, that works great!</div> <div> </div>  - Rim Rimbert Rivera Manager, Information Technology COMTEX News Network <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rrivera@comtex.com">rrivera@comtex.com</a> (703) 820-2000 Discover more about COMTEX at: <a href="http://www.comtex.com/">http://www.comtex.com/</a> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. 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If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. <div> </div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"> <hr tabindex="-1">From: Hari Sekhon [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:harisekhon@gmail.com">mailto:harisekhon@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:37 AM To: Rimbert Rivera Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to include the result of check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail? </div> Rimbert Rivera wrote: <blockquote cite="midE1F190DAC247C64FAA46B38316FA151D04498DBF@EX-101.mail.navisite.com" type="cite"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name="GENERATOR"> <div dir="ltr" align="left">It's piping the command to mail.</div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left">This is the check command:</div> <div dir="ltr" align="left">/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios</div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left">This is the mail command:</div> <div dir="ltr" align="left">mail -s"Nagios Status check (heartbeat)" <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:email@domain.com">email@domain.com</a> <div> </div> <div>So I'm using the pipe command, "|", to redirect the output of the check to mail</div> <div> </div> <div>Full command:</div> <div>/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)" <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:email@domain.com">email@domain.com</a></div> </div> <div> </div>  - Rim Rimbert Rivera Manager, Information Technology COMTEX News Network <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rrivera@comtex.com">rrivera@comtex.com</a> (703) 820-2000 Discover more about COMTEX at: <a href="http://www.comtex.com/">http://www.comtex.com/</a> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. <div> </div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"> <hr tabindex="-1"> From: Hari Sekhon [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:harisekhon@gmail.com">mailto:harisekhon@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:25 AM To: Rimbert Rivera Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to include the result of check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail? </div> Rimbert Rivera wrote: <blockquote cite="midE1F190DAC247C64FAA46B38316FA151D04498DB5@EX-101.mail.navisite.com" type="cite"> <meta content="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7638.1" name="Generator">  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)" <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:email@domain.com">email@domain.com</a> 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. - Rim Rimbert Rivera Manager, Information Technology COMTEX News Network <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rrivera@comtex.com">rrivera@comtex.com</a> (703) 820-2000 Discover more about COMTEX at: <a href="http://www.comtex.com/">http://www.comtex.com/</a> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. 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I've also modified the heartbeat script to make a separate script to send me an email to a different alias only if there is a problem so I can filter them easily and be notified more clearly if there is a problem.. -h </blockquote> </body> </html>