[Xymon] Xymon no longer sending alerts

[Colin Coe]

Hi Kris

I've been through the main hosts.cfc and all the included host snippets but
found no "funny" characters.

Thanks

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 08:05, Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com>
wrote:

> Looks like your hosts.cfg file has an error in it.  This happens to me
> sometimes if I'm not careful.  Especially if I'm using SSH and scrolling
> with my mouse wheel, for some reason it adds weird characters into the
> file.
>
> Kris Springer
>
>
>
> On 1/30/24 4:49 PM, Colin Coe wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Our Xymon server has recently stopped sending alert emails. This server is
> also running Postfix and is our mail relay.
>
> From alert.log all I see is:
> 2024-01-31 02:17:39.813610 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Select(2)
> failed)
> 2024-01-31 02:17:39.829027 ->  Select failure while sending to Xymon
> daemon at 10.10.10.10:1984
> 2024-01-31 02:17:39.829032 ->  Recipient '10.10.10.10', timeout 50
> 2024-01-31 02:17:39.829037 ->  1st line: 'config hosts.cfg'
> 2024-01-31 02:17:39.829042 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond: Select(2)
> failed
> 2024-01-31 02:17:39.829049 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to
> file-load
> 2024-01-31 02:22:40.932828 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Select(2)
> failed)
> 2024-01-31 02:22:40.932863 ->  Select failure while sending to Xymon
> daemon at 10.10.10.10:1984
> 2024-01-31 02:22:40.932867 ->  Recipient '10.10.10.10', timeout 50
> 2024-01-31 02:22:40.932871 ->  1st line: 'config hosts.cfg'
> 2024-01-31 02:22:40.932876 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond: Select(2)
> failed
> 2024-01-31 02:22:40.932881 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to
> file-load
>
> And notifications.log is zero bytes in size.
>
> I added "--debug" to the "[alert]" section of /etc/xymon/tasks.cfg and
> while the verbosity was increased, there was no indication of why alerts
> are not being sent.
>
> Any clues how I can debug this?
>
> Thanks
>
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