Easier way to make nagios send mail as different user?

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest dermoth at aei.ca
Thu May 29 04:05:52 CEST 2008


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Although when running as a non-root user you may need to add the user to
the trusted-users for this switch to work, or something equivalent if
you're not using sendmail.

Thomas

On 28/05/08 09:50 AM, kyle.odonnell at gmail.com wrote:
> sendmail -f
> 
> On 5/28/08, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote:
>>                 The two ways I've come up with to make nagios send
>> notifications as a different user are:
>>
>> Write a wrapper which allows mail to be sent with normal headers or run
>> nagios as a different user, are there any different options? The mail
>> command in linux/unix appears to be a little bit limited without a parameter
>> to specify the from address.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>> -Drew
>>
>>
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