From: Alex Dean > I have Nagios running on a local server, and I occasionally > get some emails from it with the subject "*** SECURITY > information for ***". The body of the message is > just a few characters. I've done some searching in my > Nagios logs and online, and I have no idea what these emails > are or what they mean. > The Nagios I'm using is from Ubuntu 9.10. I'm using only a > very few HTTP, ssh, & ping monitors. Nothing complex at all. > > alex@artichoke:~$ cat /etc/issue > Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l > > alex@artichoke:~$ dpkg --list | grep nagios > ii nagios-plugins > ii nagios-plugins-basic > ii nagios-plugins-standard > ii nagios3 > ii nagios3-common > ii nagios3-doc > I'll paste in 1 example email, including all the headers. > To: root@artichoke.dean > From: nagios@artichoke.dean > Auto-Submitted: auto-generated > Subject: *** SECURITY information for artichoke *** > Message-Id: <20101129032959.654D6212C9@artichoke.dean> > Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:29:59 -0600 (CST) Hm. The string "SECURITY" doesn't show up in the context of an email subject like that in the vanilla source tarball for nagios 3.0.6 or nagios-plugins 1.4.13. I wonder whether they put in some sort of patch, or the nagios-plugins-basic or nagios-plugins-standard packages include something I don't have here. If you plonk your nagios config files somewhere up on the web, I'm sure somebody will take a look at it and maybe find something I'm not seeing. But I'm a tad confused by this. Does it send a mail like that every minute? Every notification_interval minutes? We've got most of our notification_interval settings at 60, which may be too often, but it does let us know over and over again when $MACHINE has only 5% of its disk space left. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss