On 29 September 2012 02:51, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:
I have created the .procmailrc file it looks like this. The file is in /home/xymon 755 permissions and owned by xymon:xymon I tried the ownership as root as well.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | $HOME/server/bin/xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
When I run it on the CLI using this command
./xymon-mailack --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg --debug
I get nothing, it just returns an empty line, and sits there. I must be missing something.
Yes you are. The xymon-mailack program expects an email message on standard input, and if run on the command-line your keyboard becomes standard input. You can do something like this:
xymon-mailack --env=... < sample-email
But first you need to put an email message into the file "sample-mail". You could create a file like this by temporarily removing the .procmailrc file (to let messages go into the xymon user's mailbox) and then sending the xymon user an email, and then copying a mail message from /var/mail/xymon. Note that the mailbox file can contain multiple messages each separated by blank line+"From " (from-space), and you only want one of them.
J