Nagios does not send email notifications

patrick.morris at hp.com patrick.morris at hp.com
Tue Dec 8 22:37:28 CET 2009


Hi ReynierPM!

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009, ReynierPM wrote:

> Marc Powell wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:41 PM, ReynierPM wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Because it wasn't sent. Either /usr/bin/printf doesn't exist or
> > /bin/mail doesn't exist. Make sure the packages that provide them for
> > your system are installed.
> > 
> > Was nagios compiled on this same box? Did you change this command in
> > any way after install? Nagios is pretty good about detecting these
> > kinds of things during the ./configure phase and/or your package
> > maintainer should have detected it.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I compiled without touch anything. Maybe my system has nothing 
> installed able to send emails. I've installed Postfix and configure it 
> as Satellite but I think this is just the MTA and not the program who 
> send emails. I'm wrong? How I could check this requirement?

The first step would be to check what was suggested earlier: do
/usr/bin/printf and /bin/mail exist?

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