SMS notification commands

[Peter Hallam]

On Fri, 30 Nov, 13:20 +1000 Nick Pratley wrote:
> Hi, I need to be able to send notifications via SMS in the event that the
> email servers are unavailable, or the internet connection is down. There is
> a server on the same network as the Nagios host that has a modem installed
> and uses SMS Tools 3 to send messages. To send a message all I need to do is
> place a file in a certain directory on that server, in a simple format, and
> it does the rest.
>  
> Any ideas what the problem could be, when it runs manually from the command
> line but not through the nagios daemon?

Having just solved this problem this week:

chmod g+w /var/spool/sms/outgoing
chgrp nagios /var/spool/sms/outgoing

This should enable nagios to write to the directory using your script.

Regards,
Peter.
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