<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv8237192047"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442603298241_2907"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442603298241_2906"><div id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7102"><br></div><div id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7102" dir="ltr">CORRECTION:</div><div id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7102" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7102">The issue has been resolved. I put a print statement inside the script to print errors to a file:</div><div id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7101"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7100">  /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/twitter/infrabot-tweet.pl xxxxxx $msg [$X] <b>>2 /tmp/error.log</b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7229"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7230">Then I looked at the error file and noticed that one of the perl modules were not loading, once I fixed that, everything started working.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442603298241_2914"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442603298241_2908">Thanks!<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8237192047yui_3_16_0_1_1442601657674_7273"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8237192047qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442603298241_2916"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv8237192047yqt9796406260" id="yiv8237192047yqt05746"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv8237192047yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, September 18, 2015 2:49 AM, Phil Crooker <Phil.Crooker@orix.com.au> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div>  <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv8237192047y_msg_container">I think the >< characters are just email addons, they weren't in the original message.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">However, I do see the main command line is surrounded by backticks:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">`/usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/twitter/infrabot-tweet.pl recepient $X $msg`<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is that the case in the script? They should not be there.<br clear="none">________________________________________<br clear="none">From: Xymon <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>> on behalf of zep <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:zgreenfelder@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:zgreenfelder@gmail.com">zgreenfelder@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">Sent: Friday, 18 September 2015 1:38 PM<br clear="none">To: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br clear="none">Subject: Re: [Xymon] twitter style alerts are not working<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 09/17/2015 07:35 PM, usa ims via Xymon wrote:<br clear="none">> Subject:<br clear="none">> twitter style alerts are not working<br clear="none">> From:<br clear="none">> usa ims <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:usaims@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:usaims@yahoo.com">usaims@yahoo.com</a>><br clear="none">> Date:<br clear="none">> 09/17/2015 07:22 PM<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> To:<br clear="none">> "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> My twitter style alerts are not alerting me when there is an alert.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> My 'alerts.cfg' file looks like:<br clear="none">> HOST=www.xxx.com SERVICE=xxxWebPage<br clear="none">>          SCRIPT /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xx.sh FORMAT=SMS<br clear="none">> COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> My 'hosts.cfg' file looks like:<br clear="none">> 216.x.x.x     www.xxx.com  #xxxWebPage<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> My 'xx.sh' looks like:<br clear="none">> #!/bin/bash<br clear="none">> X=`date`<br clear="none">> msg=`echo "${BBALPHAMSG}"`<br clear="none">> >`</usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/twitter/infrabot-tweet.pl recepient $X<br clear="none">> $msg>`<<br clear="none"><br clear="none">.... what is your intended purpose of the marks between >< chars?<br clear="none">I wouldn't expect them there.   also, is it a typo od does the script<br clear="none">really try to call 'ext' instead etc? (note the path difference from<br clear="none">your SCRIPT line and the path you call in the xx.sh script).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The xymon display server will turn red when there is an alert but I<br clear="none">> don't get the twitter alert.<br clear="none">> If I fire off the infrabot-tweet.pl on the command line, it works and<br clear="none">> I get the twitter alert.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I checked the permissions and all files under /usr/lib/xymon are owned<br clear="none">> by 'xymon:xymon'.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Please suggest, thanks.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">--<br clear="none">public gpg key id: AE60F64C<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Xymon mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a><div class="yiv8237192047yqt9551957395" id="yiv8237192047yqtfd84812"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Xymon mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>  </div> </div>  </div></div></body></html>