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list Andy France · Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:30:45 +1300 · 

The email alerts I get from my hobbit user have no subject line.

This makes it tricky to get a quick idea of what's up - I obviously have to
open every email to see the service and color.

Is it possible to get the subject as per BB?  I guess I could change over
from MAIL to SCRIPT and format it myself, but I'd thought I'd ask what
everyone else was up to first :-)

Cheers,
Andy.


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list Henrik Størner · Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:33:16 +0100 ·
▸ quoted from Andy France
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:30:45PM +1300, Andy France wrote:

The email alerts I get from my hobbit user have no subject line.
Well, mine do :-)

What system is this on - Linux, Solaris, BSD or ... ?
What command is used to send mail on your system ?
What's the MAIL setting in your hobbitserver.cfg file ?

Try this. Login as the hobbit user, cd to the server/ directory and
run this command:

$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test osiris.hswn.dk cpu
Matching host:service:page 'osiris.hswn.dk:cpu:' against rule line 109:Failed (hostname not in include list)
Matching host:service:page 'osiris.hswn.dk:cpu:' against rule line 112:Matched
    *** Match with 'HOST=!pto.linuxbog.dk,!router1.aab11.dk,!router2.aab11.dk EXSERVICE=dnsinfo,tes' ***
Matching host:service:page 'osiris.hswn.dk:cpu:' against rule line 113:Matched
    *** Match with 'MAIL user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid REPEAT=15 RECOVERED COLORS=!purple' ***
Mail alert with command 'mail -s "BB [12345] osiris.hswn.dk:cpu is RED" user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid'

(Obviously, you should use one of your own hostnames).

The command that is used to send mail is shown in the line beginning
with "Mail alert with command" - it should include a subject, so if it
doesn't when the mail shows up in your mailbox, you may have to use a
different MAIL setting on your system.


Henrik
list Christopher T. Beers · Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:16:34 -0500 · 
I always thought that is how it was supposed to be and that the SMS or shorter messages just made it smaller and had a subject.  Guess I should have tried it.

Solaris the mail command does not accept -s but mailx does.  I changed it in hobbitserver.cfg to mailx and everything works fine.

[hobbit at darwin ~/server]$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test helpme.syr.edu cpu
Matching host:service:page 'helpme.syr.edu:cpu:' against rule line 108:Matched
    *** Match with 'HOST=%.*' ***
Matching host:service:page 'helpme.syr.edu:cpu:' against rule line 109:Matched
    *** Match with 'MAIL user-96213c045646@xymon.invalid RECOVERED' ***
Mail alert with command 'mail -s "BB [12345] helpme.syr.edu:cpu is RED" user-96213c045646@xymon.invalid'[hobbit at darwin ~/server]$ mail --help
mail: illegal option -- -
mail: illegal option -- l
mail: Usage: [-ehpPqr] [-f file] [-x debuglevel]
or      [-tw] [-m message_type] [-T file] [-x debuglevel] persons
or      [-x debuglevel]

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▸ quoted from Henrik Størner

--On February 4, 2005 7:33:16 AM +0100 Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

| The command that is used to send mail is shown in the line beginning
| with "Mail alert with command" - it should include a subject, so if it
| doesn't when the mail shows up in your mailbox, you may have to use a
| different MAIL setting on your system.
list Andy France · Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:58:37 +1300 · 
"Henrik Stoerner" wrote on 04/02/2005 19:33
▸ quoted from Henrik Størner
The email alerts I get from my hobbit user have no subject line.
Well, mine do :-)
Yay! ;-)

What system is this on - Linux, Solaris, BSD or ... ?
SunOS zpnz-mtm-bb01 5.9 Generic_117172-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
▸ quoted from Henrik Størner
What command is used to send mail on your system ?
What's the MAIL setting in your hobbitserver.cfg file ?
MAIL="mail"
▸ quoted from Christopher T. Beers
Try this. Login as the hobbit user, cd to the server/ directory and
run this command:
$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test
osiris.hswn.dk cpu
<SNIP>

The command that is used to send mail is shown in the line beginning
with "Mail alert with command" - it should include a subject, so if it
doesn't when the mail shows up in your mailbox, you may have to use a
different MAIL setting on your system.
"Christopher T. Beers" wrote on 05/02/2005 18:16:34:
▸ quoted from Christopher T. Beers
I always thought that is how it was supposed to be and that the SMS or
shorter messages just made it smaller and had a subject.  Guess I should
have tried it.
Solaris the mail command does not accept -s but mailx does.  I changed it
in hobbitserver.cfg to mailx and everything works fine.
<SNIP>


Thanks Henrik and Chris - I am indeed running Solaris 9 x86 and changing
the "MAIL=" directive in hobbitserver.cfg did the trick.  Any chance the
configure script can be updated to do this by default on Solaris?

Henrik - when I ran the test I got the following errors:

bash-3.00$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test
zd2sv1 vmio
2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option '--test'
2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option 'zd2sv1'
2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option 'vmio'

I am, however, still running B6 rather than RC1 as I didn't get any reply
about my conn/fping problems after I upgraded :-)  I'd link to the message
but the February archives don't seem to be up yet.  The subject was "Re:
[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0-RC1 available - conn errors" and it was sent 03/02/2005
04:24 GMT.

Thanks and regards,
▸ quoted from Andy France
Andy.


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list Henrik Størner · Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:26:58 +0100 · 
Hi Andy,
▸ quoted from Andy France


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:58:37AM +1300, Andy France wrote:

Thanks Henrik and Chris - I am indeed running Solaris 9 x86 and changing
the "MAIL=" directive in hobbitserver.cfg did the trick.  Any chance the
configure script can be updated to do this by default on Solaris?
Perhaps, yes.
▸ quoted from Andy France
I am, however, still running B6 rather than RC1 as I didn't get any reply
about my conn/fping problems after I upgraded :-)
The errors from the hobbitd_larrd --test is due to you running beta-6.

As for the "conn" errors you got, I just posted a reply a couple of
minutes ago. I don't see what would cause this, so I need some
debugging output.
▸ quoted from Andy France
 I'd link to the message but the February archives don't seem to be
up yet.
Argh ... mhonarc is not behaving like I want it to. Will look at it.


Henrik
list David Gore · Mon, 07 Feb 2005 03:52:32 +0000 · 
mail on Solaris including Solaris 9, doesn't include the -s flag.  Look at the man page, you would want to set MAIL to mailx:

MAIL=mailx

man mail
man mailx

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▸ quoted from Andy France


Andy France wrote:
"Henrik Stoerner" wrote on 04/02/2005 19:33
The email alerts I get from my hobbit user have no subject line.
Well, mine do :-)

Yay! ;-)


What system is this on - Linux, Solaris, BSD or ... ?

SunOS zpnz-mtm-bb01 5.9 Generic_117172-05 i86pc i386 i86pc


What command is used to send mail on your system ?
What's the MAIL setting in your hobbitserver.cfg file ?

MAIL="mail"


Try this. Login as the hobbit user, cd to the server/ directory and
run this command:
$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test
osiris.hswn.dk cpu

<SNIP>

The command that is used to send mail is shown in the line beginning
with "Mail alert with command" - it should include a subject, so if it
doesn't when the mail shows up in your mailbox, you may have to use a
different MAIL setting on your system.
"Christopher T. Beers" wrote on 05/02/2005 18:16:34:
I always thought that is how it was supposed to be and that the SMS or
shorter messages just made it smaller and had a subject.  Guess I should
have tried it.
Solaris the mail command does not accept -s but mailx does.  I changed it
in hobbitserver.cfg to mailx and everything works fine.

<SNIP>

Thanks Henrik and Chris - I am indeed running Solaris 9 x86 and changing
the "MAIL=" directive in hobbitserver.cfg did the trick.  Any chance the
configure script can be updated to do this by default on Solaris?

Henrik - when I ran the test I got the following errors:

bash-3.00$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test
zd2sv1 vmio
2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option '--test'
2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option 'zd2sv1'
2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option 'vmio'

I am, however, still running B6 rather than RC1 as I didn't get any reply
about my conn/fping problems after I upgraded :-)  I'd link to the message
but the February archives don't seem to be up yet.  The subject was "Re:
[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0-RC1 available - conn errors" and it was sent 03/02/2005
04:24 GMT.

Thanks and regards,
Andy.


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