nagios and sendmail log entries (did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN)

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marcus Sobchak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> nagios generates the follwing maillog entry each time it checks my sendmail 
> (8.12.3):
> 
> Aug 10 21:03:28 walter sm-mta[24243]: j7AJ3SoQ024243: 
> nagios at urps.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.12.152] did not issue 
> MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> 
> # 'check_smtp' command definition
> define command {
>         command_name    check_smtp
>         command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp -H $HOSTADDRESS$
> }
> 
> 
> using nagios 2:1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1 (debian sarge on sparc20)
> 
> Any ideas how to disable this and make nagios doing a quite and silent job?
> 

You could do some magic with check_tcp and adding several SEND strings, 
or you could change your MTA daemon to something that follows the RFC.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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