Re: monit and sendmail

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 19:17 +0200, Kevin Maguire wrote:
[...]
> but applying that to my Ubuntu system is hard, bot not impossible, so
> I might try.  Options are:
> 
> 1) reduce the interval of the check from monit (not ideal)

ACK.

> 2) don't check the connection on port 25 at al, just the process (not ideal)

That was my solution - not ideal, but the cheapest solution.

> 3) ignore the syslog messages (annoys me)

ACK.

> 4) reduce LogLevel is sendmail to 5 or lower (very bad idea)

ACK.

> 5) Try to apply the minor patch and rebuild my own version of sendmail
> (bit of work, likely not worth it as I'd need to try to keep up with
> any updates UbuntuDebian push out)
> 6) Use syslog-ng or similar to drop these messages :-)

ACK.
        Bernd
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