gable wrote:
Yes! ... i now officially feel like a moron :-) ... yr right ... zabbix
makes a tcp connection to port 783 to check it's running ... switching
monitoring on and off ... switches the error on and off ... I'll look for
the spamd process instead as a monitoring means ... I guees the fact the
event correlated with a flood of spam getting through - made me chase for
bigger issues' ... but hey ..
My check_spamd Nagios plugin may work for you if zabbix can use a
command line tool (and check it's return value) for monitoring.
check_spamd connects to spamd as a client as issues a ping command to
verify that spamd isn't running but unresponsive.
It's available here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/contrib/check_spamd
Daryl
