Notifications to unknown user for services with disabled notify

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Fri Jan 16 14:21:28 CET 2009


On Jan 16, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Markus Schreier wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> i'm new to the list even though i'm not new to nagios. I've taken  
> over an installation on an ubuntu -linux  and made local emails (to  
> root or to nagios) being forwarded to some administration account.  
> This made me realize some enormous email-traffic:

Hello and welcome. =)

>
> My nagios-service sends notify-mails to the Mailadresse "$" on the  
> local host.  This happens even for services with disabled  
> notifications.
> Host and service-notifications are affected.


> Why are there notifications being send if disabled for this service?
> Where does the mailadress $ come from?

A complete example host and service definition would be helpful. My  
guess is that you have your notification commands specified as an  
event_handler.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/58877

--
Marc

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