issues with notifications

[Pete Dewell]

What's the contact definition for this address ?
It looks like that has been badly defined in the config file.

Pete Dewell

Mark Shirley wrote:

> host-notify-by-email 	
> /usr/bin/printf \"%b\" \"***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type:
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress:
> $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\" |
> /usr/bin/mail -s \"Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!\"
> $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 
> That is my current host-notify-by-email command.  When a host DOWN
> event occurs it says it sends the notification but I never recieve
> one.  Upon further investigating I notice in my mail queue a returned
> email from my local smtp server stating the following
> 
> From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Jun 24 13:32:53 2004
> Return-path: <>
> Envelope-to: nagios at helpdesk
> Received: from mail by helpdesk-linux with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
> id 1BdY5l-0002xZ-00
> for <nagios at helpdesk>; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:32:53 -0400
> From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon at helpdesk>
> To: nagios at helpdesk
> Subject: Mail failure - malformed recipient address
> Message-Id: <E1BdY5l-0002xZ-00 at helpdesk-linux>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:32:53 -0400
> 
> A message that you sent contained a recipient address that was incorrectly
> constructed:
> 
>   my-host.domain.com!"  unmatched doublequote in local part (expected
> word or "<")
> 
> The message has not been delivered to any recipients.
> 
> ------ This is a copy of your message, including all the headers. ------
> 
> 
> To: alert, for, my-host.domain.com!", myemail at domain.com, UP
> Subject: "Host
> 
> ""*****""Nagios""*****nnNotification""Type:""RECOVERYnHost:""my-host.domain.comnState:""UPnAddress:""1.1.1.1nInfo:""$nnDate/Time:""Thu""Jun""24""13:32:53""EDT""2004n""
> 
> --------
> Notice the To: line!
> 
> It seems as though the line it's sending to `mail` is missing some
> information.  Could it be that "Host $HOSTSTATE$" is not getting send
> to it?  I don't really understand how this could be happening.  Is
> there any other information i can provide to make things easier?
> 
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