I have Nagios running on a local server, and I occasionally get some emails 
from it with the subject "*** SECURITY information for <hostname>***".  The 
body of the message is just a few characters.  I've done some searching in my 
Nagios logs and online, and I have no idea what these emails are or what they 
mean.

The latest instance was last night.  I had my local network torn apart for a 
few hours, and when I reconnected everything, I had about 40 of these emails 
waiting for me.

The Nagios I'm using is from Ubuntu 9.10.  I'm using only a very few HTTP, ssh, 
& ping monitors.  Nothing complex at all.

a...@artichoke:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l

a...@artichoke:~$ dpkg --list | grep nagios
ii  nagios-images                        0.4                                    
    Collection of images and icons for the nagio
ii  nagios-plugins                       1.4.13+git200906171200-1ubuntu3        
    Plugins for the nagios network monitoring an
ii  nagios-plugins-basic                 1.4.13+git200906171200-1ubuntu3        
    Plugins for the nagios network monitoring an
ii  nagios-plugins-standard              1.4.13+git200906171200-1ubuntu3        
    Plugins for the nagios network monitoring an
ii  nagios3                              3.0.6-5ubuntu3                         
    A host/service/network monitoring and manage
ii  nagios3-common                       3.0.6-5ubuntu3                         
    support files for nagios3
ii  nagios3-doc                          3.0.6-5ubuntu3                         
    documentation for nagios3

I'll paste in 1 example email, including all the headers.  If anyone has any 
idea what these mean, I'd be very grateful for some input.

thanks,
alex

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