RE: Issue with MAILC env variable?

[Tom Moore <Tom.Moore (at) sas.com>]

Resolved.  It turns out I have a bash script running from hobbitlaunch.cfg, and in bash parenthesis have a special meaning and thus it blows up when running the cmd:

. /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg

I changed the MAILC line to use single quotes such as:

MAILC="/usr/bin/nail -r 'user (at) blah.com (Xymon)'"        

And all is well.  Sorry for the email traffic, but hey, this will hit the archive and maybe help someone in the future ;)

-Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Moore 
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:58 PM
To: Tom Moore; hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: RE: Issue with MAILC env variable?

Actually.. I think I've narrowed it down to this in the hobbitlaunch.cfg file

        ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg

When it's parsing that it gives the error for the MAILC option.  The server itself seems to send out emails fine with the syntax on alerts.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Moore 
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:12 PM
To: 'hobbit (at) hswn.dk'
Subject: Issue with MAILC env variable?

I'm trying to use the -r option in "nail" to change the from address headers.  It works fine if I just have an email address, however if I use the (Name) nomenclature the hobbitd bombs with this error:

/usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: line 97: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: line 97: `MAILC="/usr/bin/nail -r "user (at) blah.com (Xymon)""        

Env is this:
MAILC="/usr/bin/nail -r "user (at) blah.com (Xymon)""        
MAIL="$MAILC -s"

From the command line this works fine as well:

/usr/bin/nail -r "user (at) blah.com (Xymon)" myemail (at) something.com


Is there something in Xymon that is interpreting the parenthesis?  I've even tried to escape them with \ to no avail.

Thx,
Tom