<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [Nagios-users] Check_mailq always reports queue empty</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Specifying the mail server using the –M switch seem to have worked. Thanks Philipp! On 3/6/08 8:44 AM, "Philipp Geschke" <nagios@pgmail.net> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>Hi, Gregory Wong schrieb: > Hi Everyone. I have NRPE running on my Ubuntu mail gateway (referred to > as SMTP) that is running MailScanner, clamav, etc. I am having problems > with the check_mailq command. It doesn’t seem to be reporting correctly. > > When I run the mailq command (as of about 1 minute ago) there were 10 > messages in the queue. They were all MAILER-DAEMON emails so nothing > that would suggest a relay problem. When I run the following command > from SMTP: > > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/libexec/check_nrpe -H 127.0.0.1 -c check_mailq > > it returns: OK: mailq is empty|unsent=0;10;15;0 > > The same thing happens when it is run from Nagios. Yesterday a Exchange > server who the SMTP server relays for went down and we got no > notification that mail started spooling on the SMTP box. > > Any suggestions why this command is always reporting the mailq is empty? > Also, does anyone have any good NRPE scripts that check MailScanner? > > Thanks. > Did you set the plugin's -M Switch to the mailserver software you are using? -M (--mailserver) = [ sendmail | qmail | postfix | exim ] (default = sendmail) Regards, Philipp </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>