Email alerts are being sent as root user

[Claudio]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:42, Tom Pride wrote:
> Hi, 
>  
> I have just set nagios 1.2 up on a
> server running Redhat 8.0 It is up
> and running beautifully, but the
> alert emails it sends out come from
> root at servername.com rather than
> nagios at servername.com
>  
> Nagios is running as the user
> nagios and it definitely calls the
> notify_by_email command as the
> nagios user, so why would they be
> comming
> through from the root user? Has
> anyone had this problem before? Can
> anyone please give me a fix?
>  
> Thanks
>  
>  
>            Mailround corporate logo


maybe you are runnging the nagios service as root. 
Check the command.cfg file. in there you will find the line with the
command for sneding e-mails. 
the command mail is run by the "nagios service starting user" ( sorry
for this stange phrase :P )


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