<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,0,0)">Alright. Now we may be getting somewhere.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,0,0)">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,0,0)">When I run that command as user ubuntu, it attempts then hangs.</div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default">
<font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ubuntu@ip:~$ su xymon -c xymoncmd echo "mail test" | $MAIL "Xymon [12345] VM-Firewall:proc CRITICAL (RED)" <a href="mailto:support@innovateteam.com">support@innovateteam.com</a></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-bash: /var/mail/ubuntu: No such file or directory</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Password:</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2013-11-11 05:41:39 Using default environment file /usr/lib/xymon/client/etc/xymonserver.cfg</font></div><div style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When I run the command as user root, it attempts then hangs.</div><div><div><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ubuntu@ip:~# sudo bash</font></div>
<div><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">root@ip:~# su xymon -c xymoncmd echo "mail test" | $MAIL "Xymon [12345] VM-Firewall:proc CRITICAL (RED)" <a href="mailto:support@innovateteam.com">support@innovateteam.com</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">bash: /var/mail/root: Permission denied</font></div><div><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2013-11-11 05:44:20 Using default environment file /usr/lib/xymon/client/etc/xymonserver.cfg</font></div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,0,0)">When I run that command as user xymon, it attempts then hangs.</div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">root@ip:~# su xymon</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">xymon@ip:/home/ubuntu$ su xymon -c xymoncmd echo "mail test" | $MAIL "Xyon [12345] VM-Firesall:proc CRITICAL (RED)" <a href="mailto:support@innovateteam.com">support@innovateteam.com</a></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">bash: /var/mail/xymon: No such file or directory</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Password:</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2013-11-11 05:47:16 Using default environment file /usr/lib/xymon/client/etc/xymonserver.cfg</font><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,0,0)">I have to CTRL+C to stop it when it hangs, and I never receive any emails from these tests.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">Thank you.</span><br></div><div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#990000">------------------------------------------------<br>
</font></div><div><b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#990000">Kris Springer</font></b></div><div><i><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#990000"><br></font></i></div><div><i><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#990000">=======================</font></i></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Jeremy Laidman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au" target="_blank">jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 November 2013 07:19, Kris Springer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kspringer@innovateteam.com" target="_blank">kspringer@innovateteam.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When I run the following command it works and I receive an email immediately.</font></div>
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<font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#990000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">su xymon -c echo "mail test" | mail -s "Xymon [12345] VM-Firewall:proc CRITICAL (RED)" <a href="mailto:support@innovateteam.com" target="_blank">support@innovateteam.com</a></font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">Thank you.</span></div>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>The environment might have something to do with it, so should be tested, and at least eliminated from our enquiries. When Xymon runs the command, it does so using the Xymon server environment, including PATH and MAIL. To test, try running the command like this:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">su xymon -c xymoncmd</div>echo "mail test" | $MAIL "Xymon [12345] VM-Firewall:proc CRITICAL (RED)" <a href="mailto:support@innovateteam.com" target="_blank">support@innovateteam.com</a><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra">
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