I recently moved one of my xymon servers from a CentOS 5 to CentOS 6.4 server. I have 1 alert configured to email me the details of any alert that is alerting longer than 30 minutes, and when it recovers. Before, on the CentOS 5 server, it would work as normal and the alert was in the body of the message. Now that it's on CentOS 6.4, it's having the alert in an attachment, and nothing in the body.
Searching for a solution seems to indicate it's something with how the body of the message is created by xymon and new line carriage returns. But I wasn't able to see any solution other than maybe writing an external script to modify the alert before sending with mail, or mailx. Does anyone have an easy way to fix this with a setting in xymon itself?
Thanks, -Ben
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On 19 March 2013 07:06, Poppy, Ben <poppy.ben at marshfieldclinic.org> wrote:
I recently moved one of my xymon servers from a CentOS 5 to CentOS 6.4 server. I have 1 alert configured to email me the details of any alert that is alerting longer than 30 minutes, and when it recovers. Before, on the CentOS 5 server, it would work as normal and the alert was in the body of the message. Now that it's on CentOS 6.4, it's having the alert in an attachment, and nothing in the body.
Yeah, it's the treatment of carriage-returns by the mail client. You could see if "mutt" is available and use that instead of the default "mail" binary, or set MAIL to be a pipeline using "tr" to strip out carriage returns. Example shown here:
http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2012-December/036286.html
J
Searching for a solution seems to indicate it's something with how the body of the message is created by xymon and new line carriage returns. But I wasn't able to see any solution other than maybe writing an external script to modify the alert before sending with mail, or mailx. Does anyone have an easy way to fix this with a setting in xymon itself?
Thanks, -Ben
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Thanks, that took care of it and it's now sending mail correctly.
From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 5:36 PM To: Poppy, Ben Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon alert email
On 19 March 2013 07:06, Poppy, Ben <poppy.ben at marshfieldclinic.org<mailto:poppy.ben at marshfieldclinic.org>> wrote: I recently moved one of my xymon servers from a CentOS 5 to CentOS 6.4 server. I have 1 alert configured to email me the details of any alert that is alerting longer than 30 minutes, and when it recovers. Before, on the CentOS 5 server, it would work as normal and the alert was in the body of the message. Now that it's on CentOS 6.4, it's having the alert in an attachment, and nothing in the body.
Yeah, it's the treatment of carriage-returns by the mail client. You could see if "mutt" is available and use that instead of the default "mail" binary, or set MAIL to be a pipeline using "tr" to strip out carriage returns. Example shown here:
http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2012-December/036286.html
J
Searching for a solution seems to indicate it's something with how the body of the message is created by xymon and new line carriage returns. But I wasn't able to see any solution other than maybe writing an external script to modify the alert before sending with mail, or mailx. Does anyone have an easy way to fix this with a setting in xymon itself?
Thanks, -Ben
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