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

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marcus Sobchak
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:40 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios and sendmail log entries (did not
issue
> MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN)
> 
> 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?!

./check_smtp -H my.mail.server -f marc at ena.com -w 10 -c 15 

Worked just fine for me. Use --help to tailor it to your specific needs.

> 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!!!

If it works, use it then. There's no reason you can't unless you were
experiencing some specific bug or issue.
 
> > 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.

I would hope that's not a limitation for you. Download the plugins
package from sourceforge and get it from there. I'd hate to have to
abide or be limited by what some random package maintainer thought was
good for me. Maybe there's a separate plugins contrib package that you
haven't installed? -extra maybe? *shrug*

--
Marc


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