Resolved. It turns out I have a bash script running from hobbitlaunch.cfg, and in bash parenthesis have a special meaning and thus it blows up when running the cmd:

. /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg

I changed the MAILC line to use single quotes such as:

MAILC="/usr/bin/nail -r 'user at blah.com (Xymon)'"

And all is well. Sorry for the email traffic, but hey, this will hit the archive and maybe help someone in the future ;)

-Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Tom Moore Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:58 PM To: Tom Moore; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: Issue with MAILC env variable?

Actually.. I think I've narrowed it down to this in the hobbitlaunch.cfg file

    ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg

When it's parsing that it gives the error for the MAILC option. The server itself seems to send out emails fine with the syntax on alerts.

-----Original Message----- From: Tom Moore Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:12 PM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: Issue with MAILC env variable?

I'm trying to use the -r option in "nail" to change the from address headers. It works fine if I just have an email address, however if I use the (Name) nomenclature the hobbitd bombs with this error:

/usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: line 97: syntax error near unexpected token (' /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: line 97: MAILC="/usr/bin/nail -r "user at blah.com (Xymon)""

Env is this: MAILC="/usr/bin/nail -r "user at blah.com (Xymon)""
MAIL="$MAILC -s"

From the command line this works fine as well:

/usr/bin/nail -r "user at blah.com (Xymon)" myemail at something.com

Is there something in Xymon that is interpreting the parenthesis? I've even tried to escape them with \ to no avail.

Thx, Tom