<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>RE: [Nagios-users] notify with qmail and gentoo problem</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Here's my command form misc_commands.cfg: # 'notify-by-email' command definition define command { command_name notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 1.0b6 *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } I assumed this command was right and I just didn't know what was going on with the "| -s" part. It is possible that I didn't have my mail system installed and configured when I installed nagios (new box), so perhaps it didn't find any mail stuff and left parts of this command empty??? I'll try a new make install-config and see if I get anything interesting in misc_commands.cfg... Lloyd > -----Original Message----- > From: Volker.Aust@premiere.de [<A HREF="mailto:Volker.Aust@premiere.de">mailto:Volker.Aust@premiere.de</A>] > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:25 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: Meinholz@bmpcoe.org > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notify with qmail and gentoo problem > > > Hi Lloyd, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lloyd Meinholz [<A HREF="mailto:Meinholz@bmpcoe.org">mailto:Meinholz@bmpcoe.org</A>] > > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:41 PM > > To: 'sancho@sancho2k.net'; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notify with qmail and gentoo problem > > <snip> > > > Since I got the following in nagios.log: > > [1035474094] Warning: Attempting to execute the command > > "/usr/bin/printf "%b" "Service: NTP\nHost: odin\nAddress: > > 204.255.194.4\nState: OK\nInfo: OK: Time difference -0.033110 > > seconds\nDate: Thu Oct 24 11:41:34 EDT 2002" | -s "RECOVERY: > ^^^^ > > Odin Sun E3000/NTP is OK" meinholz@imcingular.com" resulted > > in a return code of 127. Make sure the script or binary you > > are trying to execute actually exists... > > </snip> > > printf is not your problem, but at the mark there is no mail > command. printf > is only used to pipe the mail message body to your mail > program. '-s "blah"' > is the subject and 'meinholz@...' is the receipient. I think > qmail never > see's your mail. > > Can you post your notify-by-email (or host-notify-by-email) > command from > your (misc-) commands.cfg? > > -vol > </BODY> </HTML>