On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:04:02PM -0700, Ron wrote: > I was toying with an idea on how to monitor a queue with nagios however Ive > found it to be more difficult then I had thought.
This has nothing to do with exim development. Please ask user-level questions on the appropriate mailing list. > First off exim on my systems run as (user/group) mail and mailnull > and to get a queue count you need to be root to get the output of > exim -bpc I found a script here > > http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Check_Plugins.21.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=644 > which can be plugged in to check the queue but you need the NRPE > plugin to be ran as root which is NOT a good idea. Use sudo or add your nrpe user to the exim admin_group. I'd prefer using sudo and only allow nrpe to execute exim -bpc. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
