notify with qmail and gentoo problem

[Lloyd Meinholz]

Here's my command form misc_commands.cfg:

# 'notify-by-email' command definition
define command {
	command_name	notify-by-email
	command_line	/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 1.0b6
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" |
-s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
$SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
	}

I assumed this command was right and I just didn't know what was going on
with the "| -s" part. It is possible that I didn't have my mail system
installed and configured when I installed nagios (new box), so perhaps it
didn't find any mail stuff and left parts of this command empty??? I'll try
a new make install-config and see if I get anything interesting in
misc_commands.cfg...

Lloyd



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Volker.Aust at premiere.de [mailto:Volker.Aust at premiere.de]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:25 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Meinholz at bmpcoe.org
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notify with qmail and gentoo problem
> 
> 
> Hi Lloyd,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lloyd Meinholz [mailto:Meinholz at bmpcoe.org]
> > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:41 PM
> > To: 'sancho at sancho2k.net'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notify with qmail and gentoo problem
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Since I got the following in nagios.log: 
> > [1035474094] Warning: Attempting to execute the command 
> > "/usr/bin/printf "%b" "Service: NTP\nHost: odin\nAddress: 
> > 204.255.194.4\nState: OK\nInfo: OK: Time difference -0.033110 
> > seconds\nDate: Thu Oct 24 11:41:34 EDT 2002" |  -s "RECOVERY: 
>                                                ^^^^
> > Odin Sun E3000/NTP is OK" meinholz at imcingular.com" resulted 
> > in a return code of 127.  Make sure the script or binary you 
> > are trying to execute actually exists...
> 
> </snip>
> 
> printf is not your problem, but at the mark there is no mail 
> command. printf
> is only used to pipe the mail message body to your mail 
> program. '-s "blah"'
> is the subject and 'meinholz at ...' is the receipient. I think 
> qmail never
> see's your mail.
> 
> Can you post your notify-by-email (or host-notify-by-email) 
> command from
> your (misc-) commands.cfg?
> 
> -vol
> 
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