strange "CRITICAL" problem

[Marc Powell]

Your problem is more likely related to interpretations of the SMTP RFC
as opposed to wireless networking. See the following URL for a fix. It's
a patch to check_smtp from the plugins package.

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/13608/2002/6/0/8924911/

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:joshuadfranklin at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] strange "CRITICAL" problem
> 
> I recently set up nagios to check about 30 network devices.
> Everything seems to be working great, with the exception of
> one email server that is networked over a 802.11b wireless connection.
> Nagios *constantly* reports the SMTP service as "Critical", despite
> a message of "SMTP OK - 0 second response time".
> 
> At first I tried adding a custom check_smtp command with a 30-second
> timeout, but it still reported the same. I noticed that it always had
> "Attempt 3/3" instead of "1/3" so I thought I might try setting
> max_check_attempts higher. Setting it to 5 immediately made the status
> page go to "Attempt 5/5". I thought this was weird to I set
> max_check_attempts to 500 and restarted. Now it always reads "Attempt
> 500/500"
> This doesn't seem right.
> 
> 
> 
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