NRPE nagios sendmail mailbox

[360crm]

Evening all

I have configured some nrpe checks on a couple of our remote centos servers using the nrds configuration manager, this has been working grand and as expected.

However we have recently noticed that it has created a sendmail mailbox on the remote machines that just seems to grow and grow.

Firstly why does it need to save messages to the local machine? If it doesn't how can I turn this setting off?

Any help would be mostly appreciated, thanks in advance.

[scottwilkerson]

out of curiosity, can you post the output of this from one of the machines with this condition

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crontab -l -u nagios

If it doesn't have something like this on the end you can add it to suppress the cron emails

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>/dev/null 2>&1

[360crm]

Hi Scott

Thanks for the reply

I just have the following at the end: 2>&1

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*/1 * * * * /usr/local/nrdp/clients/nrds/nrds.pl -H sip5 2>&1

Will change to your suggestion.

Thanks again

[slansing]

Great, let us know how it works out for you!

[360crm]

Hi

Just checked this morning and the cron job is still sending emails to the nagios mailbox on the remote machines any other ideas?

[abrist]

Try:

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*/1 * * * * /usr/local/nrdp/clients/nrds/nrds.pl -H sip5 > /dev/null 2>&1

[360crm]

That is looking good thanks abrist

[abrist]

Great! Locking thread. Open a new one if you have new issues. Cheers.