<!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"> On 5/6/09 2:36 AM, Marc Powell wrote: Hi Marc, You just saved me _lots_ of time. It looks like someone had adjusted the permissions on /tmp to 0700 and owned by root:root - hence no tmp file could be created by /usr/bin/mail or /usr/bin/mailx I did a stat on the directory but it has been updated several times since Nagios stoppped working so I'm no doubt not going to be able to find out when it was modified and by which uid. Much appreciate your assistance!!!! Cheers <blockquote cite="mid:12168C94-6559-4F4D-9465-9178046ABBC5@ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Jun 4, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Tim Philips wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">When a host (or service) experiences a problem the normal process seems to be happening (from what I see in the UI and the logs): [1244096420] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;root /dev/mapper/VolGroup00- LogVol00;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;DISK CRITICAL - free space: / 17736 MB (4% inode=99%): [1244096480] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;root /dev/mapper/VolGroup00- LogVol00;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;DISK CRITICAL - free space: / 17739 MB (4% inode=99%): [1244096540] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;root /dev/mapper/VolGroup00- LogVol00;CRITICAL;SOFT;3;DISK CRITICAL - free space: / 17739 MB (4% inode=99%): [1244096600] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;root /dev/mapper/VolGroup00- LogVol00;CRITICAL;HARD;4;DISK CRITICAL - free space: / 17739 MB (4% inode=99%): [1244096600] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: nagiosadmin;localhost;root /dev/ mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00;CRITICAL;notify-service-by-email;DISK CRITICAL - free space: / 17739 MB (4% inode=99%): </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This is good. Nagios is trying to execute the notify-service-by-email command. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">[1244096600.198454] [032.0] [pid=7951] 1 contacts were notified. Next possible notification time: Thu Jun 4 19:23:20 2009 [1244096600.198514] [032.0] [pid=7951] 1 contacts were notified. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ... and nagios believes it was successful </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'm able to manually use the mail command to send external e-mail (have attempted this several times) and can confirm that I can manually execute the command_line for the notification option: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> as the nagios user? (just covering the base)... </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have addjusted the command_line and changed it to something like (for example): command_line echo "testing" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** TEST SUBJECT **" <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:my@email.address">my@email.address</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> How about eliminating /usr/bin/mail entirely and dumping text to a file in /tmp? command_line echo `date` ' - I notified!' >> /tmp/notif.log </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">All this said I'm not seeing anything in the mail server logs indicating that Nagios is even attempting to use notify-service-by- email and send e-mail. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's interesting and my money is on it being some problem related to /usr/bin/mail. You might try capturing the output of /usr/bin/mail by redirecting to a log file -- command_line echo "testing" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** TEST SUBJECT **" <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:my@email.address">my@email.address</a> >>/tmp/mail.err 2>&1 -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get">http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Tim Philips Solutions Architecture Team DTS - A Better Broadband Experience +64-21-438-846 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:timp@dts.net.nz">timp@dts.net.nz</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.dts.net.nz">www.dts.net.nz</a> </pre> </body> </html>