email notifications (was RE: RE: Error message when I start nagios)

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Philipp Snizek wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've looked for notification setups for email alerts in the
> documentation, however I could not find an answer to what I've been
> looking for.
> 
> I wanted to set up email notification in nagios and hoped configuring
> the email address in contacts.cfg would be enough. As it seems it's
> not. 
> 
> The notify-by-email in misccommands.cfg doesn't seem to work:
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-email
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" |  -s "**
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$
> **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
>         }
> 
> So I put in front of /usr/bin/printf a sendmail command sending the
> mails to my account. The alert emails did come in but were unreadable
> and looking like this:
> 
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> Thanks 
> Philipp


Looks like locale issue. What platform are your trying this on?
-- 

-sg



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