Hi I was having a very similar problem about 1 week ago
I had incorrectly edited the 'command_line' in the 'define command' for the email notification. The consequences of which are identical to your result. My guess is that if you look CLOSELY at the 'command_lin e' you will find something wrong - in my case I had a bare $ in the line. Anyway, an easy way to verify operation of you cmd line is to copy and edit it and then try to execute it in a shell - Im betting it wont work - AND I have NOT found anywhere in Nagios where there is any error info about the cmd not being parsed correctly Example define command{ command_name notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$SERVICEOUTPUT$ $HOSTNAME$ $SHORTDATETIME$" | mail -s "" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } so copy -/usr/bin/printf "%b" "$SERVICEOUTPUT$ $HOSTNAME$ $SHORTDATETIME$ " | mail -s "" $CONTACTEMAIL$- out - edit in real values and execute it - - Lee Fitz (leefitz) ----------------------- This thread is located in the archive at this URL: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html?&tx_maillisttofaq_pi 1[showUid]=15065 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null