Notifications not coming through

[JoAnne.Schmitz at baltsun.com]

Lee Fitz writes:

"I had incorrectly edited the 'command_line' in the 'define command'
 for the email notification. The consequences of which are identical
 to your result. My guess is that if you look CLOSELY at the 
'command_line' 
you will find something wrong - in my case I had a  bare $ in
 the line."

It turns out that this was not the problem -- misccommands.cfg had not 
changed since June.  I did try changing the command to remove all 
variables, which didn't result in an email either.

Thanks for the suggestion, though; it makes sense.

The real problem was, somehow the /TMP directory permissions got hosed. 
Sendmail apparently uses that directory to compose the mail before sending 
it. 

Therefore, the notifications got logged in Nagios, because the command 
line got launched.  But the message did not get sent, and nothing would 
appear in the mail log, because the command line failed.

We knew there was more going on than Nagios failure, because when we tried 
rebooting the system, X11 wouldn't start. Fortunately I had a Linux mage 
helping me and we eventually tracked it down.

-JoAnne

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JoAnne Schmitz
Publishing Systems Supervisor
The Baltimore Sun
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cell 443 829 2855


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