several sendmail processes lingering

[Blackshear, Lisa]

Thanks Marc,

After reading your comments, I looked in the logs and show that mail to
nagios-admin at localhost were undeliverable.  There is no nagios-admin user.

Thanks for the direction.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:47 AM
To: Blackshear, Lisa; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] several sendmail processes lingering


Ah, interesting, a fellow Tennessean ;)

Nagios doesn't actually use sendmail at all. It's going to be whatever
program you have configured in your notify-by-email command (probably
/bin/mail) which probably calls sendmail for final delivery. Can you show us
your notify-by-email command so that we can verify that there's nothing
unusual about it? Beyond that, there must be something else, outside of
nagios, that's causing a problem. Is there anything in the sendmail log
file? Perhaps it's having problems doing DNS resolution or difficulties
connecting to the remote SMTP server. If there's nothing in the maillog you
could always look at the queue files (/var/spool/mqueue/qf*). They might
have information on failures. Also, most newer versions of sendmail show
useful information in ps like --

root      1477 22927  0 10:38 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
chatbox-smtp-out6.apple.com [17.254.6.17] cmd read                 

Do the ones that are hanging out show anything like that? If you're running
sendmail as a daemon on that machine it's not unusual to have multiple
sendmail children hanging out.

--
Marc

________________________________________
From: Blackshear, Lisa [mailto:lblackshear at shopathometv.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:02 AM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [Nagios-users] several sendmail processes lingering

Hello, 
Could someone tell me how to get nagios to closes the sendmail processes it
spans?  I have several sendmail processes that accumulate until I kill
them.  Why is this?
Lisa Blackshear 
Unix Administrator, Shop at Home Network, LLC 
(615) 263-8333 | lblackshear at sath.com 
www.shopathometv.com 

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