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Brian T. O'Neill btoneill at misplaced.net
Fri May 6 19:19:13 CEST 2005


What system are you on? Does your system have mailx? On mailx it's -r to
change the name. 

Brian

Quoting Mario Sergio Candian (mscandian at FreeBSDBrasil.Com.Br) from  :
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I tested with the -r option. But, I was finding in the man page of mail, 
> and I dont found nothing about -r option. Look:
> 
> root at cyberdine~% mail -r
> mail: illegal option -- r
> Usage: mail [-EiInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] [-F] to-addr 
> ...
>             [- sendmail-options ...]
>        mail [-EHiInNv] [-F] -f [name]
>        mail [-EHiInNv] [-F] [-u user]
>        mail -e [-f name]
>        mail -H
> 
> Is the -r option correct?
> 
> | /usr/bin/mail -r address at somedomain.com -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$
> alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **"
> 
> Mario Sergio Candian
> -
> "Live your dreams and face your fears"
> 
> On Thu, 5 May 2005, Brian T. O'Neill wrote:
> 
> >Use -r not -f.
> >
> >Brian
> >
> >Quoting Mario Sergio Candian (mscandian at FreeBSDBrasil.Com.Br) from  :
> >>
> >>Hi list,
> >>
> >>I change my misccommands.cfg, and I put the -f option with an
> >>address at somedomain.com. But, I continued receive notification by email 
> >>with
> >>other address at somedomain. Eg:
> >>
> >>Date: Thu,  5 May 2005 09:32:01 -0300 (BRT)
> >>From: Nagios pseudo-user <nagios at cliente.com>
> >>To: suport at mydomain.com
> >>Subject: Host DOWN alert for ns4.domain.com.br!
> >>
> >>***** Nagios  *****
> >>
> >>Notification Type: PROBLEM
> >>Host: ns4.domain.com.br
> >>State: DOWN
> >>Address: ns4.domain.com.br
> >>Info: CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 11 seconds
> >>
> >>In this email, I wanna to change the mail From "Nagios pseudo-user
> >><nagios at cliente.com>". Now, I wanna to define it for ns5 at mydomain.com.
> >>I put the -f option and doesnt resolve. Whant I need to do?
> >>
> >>My miscommands.cfg:
> >>
> >>| /usr/bin/mail -f address at somedomain.com -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$
> >>alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **"
> >>
> >>What I need to do to change this?
> >>
> >>Mario Sergio Candian
> >>-
> >>"Dreams as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today" -- James
> >>Dean
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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