Nagios mail is from anonymouse

[jeff vier]

set an environment variable in your nagios user' shell's rc script
(.bashrc or .cshrc, for instance):
MAILNAME="Nagios"
(or whatever you want it to be)

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:30, Jeff McKeon wrote:
> All,
> 
> Not sure if I should be mailing you or the qmail list but to be honest,
> you guys are much nicer with your responses.
> 
> We had some internal shakeups here on our network and suddenly mail from
> my nagios machine using sendmail wasn't making it out.  Using Qmail on
> most of my other machines and finding it much easier to deal with than
> sendmail I decided to install it on the nagios machine.  Happily mail is
> now coming from Nagios.  The only problem is that instead of it coming
> from "nagios at foo.com" it comes from "anonymous at foo.com"
> 
> Is there any way to correct this?  A setting somewhere that I am
> missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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