check_qmailq.pl or check_mailq

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, zack kenton wrote:

> So I apologize for the duplicate posts, not sure why it was happening. 
> However, this will be my last posting if in fact duplicate posts occur. 
> Now to my problem; the standard check_mailq and the check_qmailq (found 
> in the contrib directory of plugins) both run on the local hosts and 
> return mail queue ok, no queued emails, etc...but when running from the 
> nagios machine with nrpe, they both return errors, along the lines of: 
> Error code 111 returned from /usr/bin/mailq or CRITICAL: Keine gueltigte 
> Antwort (Zeile #1) von /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat (its a german plugin 
> apparently) but translated means bad answer from line 1 in 
> qmail-qstat...has anyone run into these same problems...and forgive the 
> duplicates ahead of time...I wont post with this email after this

I use check_qmailq.pl. I run it with sudo like:

command[check_qmailq]=sudo /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/contrib/check_qmailq.pl

and my sudoers is setup so my nrpe user can run that specific script.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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