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alerts - pointing at mail server

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list Richard Kennard · Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:24:32 +0000 ·
Dear All,
I've probably missed something obvious but........
I've set up some basic alerts in my hobbit config. Looking at the logs indicates that they are being triggered and attempting to send mail
to the specified address.
However - no mail arrives. I'm sure the reason is that the server doesn't know where to send them - I can't seem to find anywhere in the hobbit config files where I can tell it about my local smtp server.
Do I need to be configuring sendmail on my hobit server or?
Cheers!
Rich
list Tom Callahan · Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:43:36 -0500 ·
Hobbit uses whatever mail agent is specified in ..server/etc/bbdef.sh (I
think that's the file)

If using sendmail, you need to configure sendmail so it knows what to do....

Tom Callahan
quoted from Richard Kennard

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Subject: [hobbit] alerts - pointing at mail server


Dear All,
I've probably missed something obvious but........
I've set up some basic alerts in my hobbit config. Looking at the logs 
indicates that they are being triggered and attempting to send mail
to the specified address.
However - no mail arrives. I'm sure the reason is that the server 
doesn't know where to send them - I can't seem to find anywhere in the 
hobbit config files where I can tell it about my local smtp server.
Do I need to be configuring sendmail on my hobit server or?
Cheers!
Rich
list Henrik Størner · Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:49:02 +0100 ·
quoted from Richard Kennard
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:24:32PM +0000, richard kennard wrote:
However - no mail arrives. I'm sure the reason is that the server doesn't know where to send them - I can't seem to find anywhere in the hobbit config files where I can tell it about my local smtp server.
Do I need to be configuring sendmail on my hobit server or?
Hobbit just calls the "mail" utility on your system - often that in turn
invokes sendmail to actually deliver the mail.

So yes, you need to configure mail on your box for Hobbit to deliver alerts via e-mail.


Henrik