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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Have you tried sending email as the xymon user rather than as root?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kris Springer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 November 2013 07:30<br>
<b>To:</b> Japheth Cleaver<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] not receiving alerts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#990000">Thanks for the ideas. But the notifications.log is completely empty. The MAIL lines in xymonserver.cfg match what you suggested. The permissions issue was worth looking into.
When I send a test message I'm always sudo root. I've made the xymon user part of the 'root' group, but that didn't help any. I noticed there's a 'mail' group. I thought maybe adding the xymon user to the 'mail' group may have affected something, but it
didn't either. Any more ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#990000;background:white">Kris Springer</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Japheth Cleaver <<a href="mailto:cleaver@terabithia.org" target="_blank">cleaver@terabithia.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">You should see something in in /var/log/xymon/notifications.log whenever<br>
xymond_alert thinks it's sending (e.g.) an email off:<br>
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Fri Nov 8 14:16:33 2013 monitor.example.net.procs (192.168.2.5)<br>
<a href="mailto:cleaver@terabithia.org">cleaver@terabithia.org</a>[170] 1383948993 300<br>
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If you see that, then your config logic is probably OK. Double check your<br>
'mail' lines in xymonserver.cfg:<br>
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MAILC="mail" # Command used to send an e-mail with no subject<br>
MAIL="$MAILC -s" # Command used to send an e-mail with a subject<br>
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If you can send an email by hand, and those binaries are in normal spots,<br>
perhaps there's a permissions problem? Weird PATH issues? SELinux?<br>
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HTH,<br>
-jc<br>
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On Fri, November 8, 2013 3:14 pm, Kris Springer wrote:<br>
> I'm still trying to find a solution to this. I haven't been able to focus<br>
> on this for a while. My alerts are still not sending out. I assumed that<br>
> maybe Amazon AWS was blocking them for some reason, but I filled out all<br>
> the forms and supposedly have no blocking going on. The logs on Xymon<br>
> don't show me anything that jump out as the problem. I am able to send<br>
> test messages using sendmail from the command line with not trouble at all<br>
> to email addresses hosted at Google and Godaddy. I've checked spam and<br>
> junk folders but the alerts just aren't getting there. HELP! Any<br>
> suggestion will be attempted, but please don't just make general<br>
> suggestions like "check the logs" without specifying what exactly I'm<br>
> supposed to be checking.<br>
><br>
> Thank you.<br>
> ------------------------------------------------<br>
> *Kris Springer*<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Root, Paul T<br>
> <<a href="mailto:Paul.Root@centurylink.com">Paul.Root@centurylink.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Use: /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/xymond_alert --test $* --duration=500<br>
>> |grep -v Failed<br>
>> To test what alerts do.<br>
>><br>
>> Look at ~xymon/server/logs/notifications.log (or where ever you have it.<br>
>> I<br>
>> have /var/log/xymon) to see what it actually did.<br>
>><br>
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>> From: Xymon [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] On Behalf Of Mike Burger<br>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:26 AM<br>
>> To: Kris Springer<br>
>> Cc: <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] not receiving alerts<br>
>><br>
>> You mentioned looking at logs...the Xymon logs, or /var/log/maillog?<br>
>><br>
>> I'm curious as to what the maillog shows for the events/times in<br>
>> question.<br>
>> --<br>
>> Mike Burger<br>
>> <a href="http://www.bubbanfriends.org" target="_blank">http://www.bubbanfriends.org</a><br>
>><br>
>> "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever<br>
>> just<br>
>> stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> > I'm not receiving alerts on red and yellow's. I set up my server a<br>
>> > while ago and received many alerts during setup and even after. But<br>
>> > about a week ago I stopped receiving the emails. They're not going to<br>
>> > spam, and I am able to send emails via command line from the Xymon<br>
>> > server with no trouble.<br>
>> > I've looked in the logs and am not seeing anything. Xymon is running<br>
>> > on an Ubuntu v13 box hosted on AWS. Ideas?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Thank you.<br>
>> > ------------------------------------------------<br>
>> > *Kris Springer*<br>
>> ><br>
>> > *<br>
>> > *<br>
>> > _______________________________________________<br>
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>> > <a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
>> > <a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon" target="_blank">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a><br>
>> ><br>
>><br>
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