[Nagiosplug-help] check_mailq plugin

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Peter Hicks wrote:

> I seem to be having trouble with the check_mailq plugin. When executed,
> I get the following results:
> 
>  ./check_mailq -w 100 -c 500 -v
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./check_mailq line 110.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./check_mailq line 110.
>  | mailq = 
> Use of uninitialized value in exit at ./check_mailq line 111.

Which version of check_mailq was this from - did you just copy the plugin 
over? do an rpm install? update paths in utils.pm?

> 
> I am using the 1.3.1 plugins. I tried using the plugins that are in cvs,
> but I seem to have problems with this check_mailq as well. The cvs
> version would be ideal, as I am running qmail. This is the output from
> the cvs version:
> 
> ./check_mailq -M qmail -w 100 -c 200 -v
> Duplicate specification "Warning=i" for option "warning"
> Duplicate specification "Critical=i" for option "critical"
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: wc: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: find: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: wc: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: wc: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: find: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: wc: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: expr: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat: line 1: expr: No such file or directory
> Couldn't match /usr/sbin/qmail-qstat output

can you post the output of "/usr/sbin/qmail-qstat"
Does the first line of the output match the following regex:
/^messages in queue: (\d+)/

Also does the nagios user have premision to run the qmail-qstat program?

> 
> When looking at the source for the cvs version, I see the following,
> which looks like the output of someones mailq in the code:

That is valid for a particular configuration of sendmail with multiple 
queues.  

<snip>

-sg

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