R: email notification problem

[Nicola Agnelli]

Hello all,
i've the same problem, i've installed nagios 2.0 and all works good, but the
email notifications can't be send..
my command is the default command:

define command{
        command_name    notify-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAdd$
        }
And:
define command{
        command_name    host-notify-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState:
$HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $$
        }

But I can't receive notifications mails.. 
Here are the nagios.log:

....
[1138352948] HOST ALERT: w2k3-server;DOWN;SOFT;9;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
(10.0.0.222)
[1138352951] HOST ALERT: w2k3-server;DOWN;HARD;10;CRITICAL - Host
Unreachable (10.0.0.222)
[1138352951] HOST NOTIFICATION:
nagios-admin;w2k3-server;DOWN;host-notify-by-email;CRITICAL - Host
Unreachable (10.0.0.222)
....

How can I resolve ? 

Tnx all

nicola


-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] Per conto di Arno Lehmann
Inviato: venerdì 27 gennaio 2006 10.02
A: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] email notification problem

Hello,

On 1/27/2006 3:44 AM, test 123king wrote:
> I have set up nagios nagios-1.3-14.fc4 in my FC4 server, the only 
> problem now is the email notification can't be send out.
> The original notify-by-email in misccommands.cfg file is like below:
> # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
> command_name notify-by-email
> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****nnNotification 
> Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$nnService: $SERVIC
> EDESC$nHost: $HOSTALIAS$nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$nState: 
> $SERVICESTATE$nnDate/Time: $DATETIME$nnAdditional Info:n
> n$OUTPUT$" | -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ 
> is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> }
> 
> I changed it to :
> # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
> command_name notify-by-email
> command_line /bin/mail "%b" "***** Nagios *****nnNotification Type: 
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$nnService: $SERVIC
> EDESC$nHost: $HOSTALIAS$nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$nState: 
> $SERVICESTATE$nnDate/Time: $DATETIME$nnAddi tional Info:n
> n$OUTPUT$" | -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ 
> is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> }
> 
> Basically I replaced /usr/bin/printf with /bin/mail.

And you don't have a valid command line left: after the pipe, there 
should be a program to read the output from mail. And your invocation of 
mail looks a little... non-standard to me.

> In the /var/log/messages log I see the following error:
> 
> 
> Warning: Attempting to execute the command "/bin/mail "%b" "***** Nagios 
> *****nnNotification Type: RECOVERYnHost: Server-1nState: UPnAddress: 
> 10.100.1.79nInfo: PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.76 msnnDate/Time: 
> Thu Jan 26 17:48:21 EST 2006n" | -s "Host UP alert for Server-OTM!" 
> sysadmin at www.com <mailto:sysadmin at www.com>" resulted in a return code of 
> 127. Make sure the scri//pt or binary you are trying to execute actually 
> exists...

It's all there: the output from mail is piped to '-s' which, most 
probably, is not installed on your system as an executable program in 
the path.

> 
> Any kind help is highly appreciated!!
> 

Why don't you try the original notification script and simply insert 
your mail command between pipe and '-s'? The reason why it's missing, by 
the way, is probably that configure couldn't identify your mailer.

Arno

-- 
IT-Service Lehmann                    al at its-lehmann.de
Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de


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