Hello, you need to set the mailserver to be used for alert delivery using the "set mailserver" statement - see manual for more details: http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#setting_a_mail_server_for_alert_delivery
Regards, Martin On 10 Jul 2014, at 18:58, GreenLantern <[email protected]> wrote: > hello everyone, new monit user here. > > I am trying to run a simple test program to monitor a simple test process > and send me an email alert. > > here is my monitrc file: > > *set daemon 30 # Poll at 60 second intervals for testing purposes. > set httpd port 2812 and use address localhost > allow localhost > > set mail-format { > subject: $SERVICE $EVENT > message: $HOST $DATE > } > > set alert [email protected] #receive all alerts to email > > check process sleeper with pidfile "/monit/bin/sleeper.pid" > start program = "/monit/bin/sleepercontrol start &" > stop program = "/monit/bin/sleepercontrol stop" > alert [email protected] on { nonexist } > * > > the process it is running is called sleeper. monit does a fine job of > restarting the sleeper process when I terminal $ kill -9 <sleeper pid> > > but when i run: $ monit -vId 20 -c monitrc > > i get this: > > *Starting monit daemon with http interface at [localhost:2812] > Starting monit HTTP server at [localhost:2812] > monit HTTP server started > Monit started > Monit instance changed notification is sent to [email protected] > Cannot open a connection to the mailserver 'localhost:25' -- Transport > endpoint is not connected > No mail servers are available > Aborting event > * > > any ideas? I can seem to figure this one out. > > Thanks folks! > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nongnu.13855.n7.nabble.com/Cannot-open-a-connection-to-the-mailserve-localhost-25-Transport-endpoint-is-not-connected-tp186867.html > Sent from the monit-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
