I hope this is the right place to ask this question; #debian irc directed me here since esmtp-run doesn't appear to have it's own list.
I'm fairly sure I have isolated this problem as being related to esmtp-run and not directly related to nagios. Nagios takes a string and executes that via popen in order to send email notifications, and can execute any other arbitrary commands I try but not esmtp-run's simple email sender. Futhermore I've used nagios' debug log to confirm the command runs as expected, using the expected string (after macro expansions, etc) and that a zero return value is rendered from esmtp-run indicating no errors: yet no delivery happens either. The test command I am using is: /bin/echo "testing" | /usr/lib/sendmail -f m...@email.com m...@email.com I've confirmed that the nagios daemon attempts to run this command via user "nagios", and I can run that exact string from shell when "su - nagios" to impersonate that user, and receive the remotely delivered email, but when run through the daemon no action is taken that I can detect. I do not have "mda=" configured, since I want no local delivery, remote only. I can see nothing in /var/syslog, and know of no other logging facility esmtp-run might want to use. I have added a "preconnect" line to emulate logging, and that line appears to function when I invoke from shell and not to function when invoked from nagios. I have checked /var/mail/ and see no new activity, in case procmail were being somehow invoked and dumping messages there. Here is my /etc/esmtprc: hostname=email.email.com:25 preconnect='/bin/date >> /tmp/test2' So I don't know if this is related to the daemon somehow having incompatible environment variables, or what could be different about these methods of invocation or what to test next save tearing apart the source code and gdbing everything that moves. If there are any esmtp-run experts out there, or just reliable-send-only-MUA-that-plays-nice-with-nagios experts, I could use some pointers. :) Thanks guys! - - Jesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+wh7Kjf39P4q7j8hHHEiw4ts+skrhed51WAj_57R-+=S=+e...@mail.gmail.com
