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

[Marcus Sobchak]

Hi,

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 23:12, Marc Powell wrote:
> The check_smtp plugin in that release is a pretty simple plugin that
> connects to the SMTP server, looks for the banner then disconnects, that's
> it. It doesn't have any functionality to actually begin or complete an SMTP
> transaction, which would be required to avoid that error. Those errors are
> harmless and informational only as far as sendmail is concerned. If you're
> really concerned about them the same plugin in the 1.4 release has enhanced
> functionality to start an SMTP session 

okay, but which parameters do I have to set?!

I just checked one of my old check_smtp binaries:

/usr/local/bin$ ./check_smtp --version
check_smtp (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.9.2.2

This binary does NOT produce those sendmail logfile entries. Strange!!!

> or you might want to look at the 
> check_email_loop.pl plugin in the contrib directory.

seems not to be part of the debian package.

Cheers,
Marcus


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