notification emails

[Michael Friedrich]

On 02.12.2011 09:14, Nick Price wrote:
>
> Yes  printf works
>
> I had the same version of Nagios with the same config files working OK 
> with fedora 14
>
> It is only when I installed it on fedora 16 the notifications don't work
>
> I think it's a bug within Nagios
>

nagios just calls the command forking into a shell, so i'd rather guess 
this will be affected by turned on selinux. provide the output of

# getenforce


> Did you also do
>
> printf 'this is a test' | /bin/mail  --s  test_email 
> email at mydomain.com <mailto:email at mydomain.com>
>
> ?
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Nick Price <np121 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:np121 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The defaults are there.
>
> I did        echo 'this is a test' | /bin/mail  --s  test_email 
> email at mydomain.com <mailto:email at mydomain.com>
>
> That went out Ok
>
> What to look at next
>
> *From:*Claudio Kuenzler [mailto:ck at claudiokuenzler.com 
> <mailto:ck at claudiokuenzler.com>]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:37
> *To:* Nagios Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] notification emails
>
> Did you check the command which is used to send notifications in 
> command.cfg or checkcommand.cfg ?
> Maybe you don't have the binary or you need to rename the command.
>
> By default it uses /usr/bin/printf and /usr/bin/mail if I'm not mistaken.
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Nick Price <np121 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:np121 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am not sure if this is a bug or config issue.
>
> I have a clean install of fedora 16 32 bit  with a manual install of 
> nagios
> 3.3.1  and nagios plugins 1.4.15.
>
> I see in the debug log
>
> Notification viability test failed. No notification will be sent out.
>
> I can send test emails from this server using sendmail and that bit works
>
>
> Is there a solution for this.
>
> Regards
>
> Nick
>
>
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