Re: Monit keeps resending the same email

[Alex Brown]

Info
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I see the following in the log file.
[CDT Sep  5 11:53:39] error    : Sendmail error: 500 Command not implemented
[CDT Sep  5 11:53:39] error    : Alert handler failed, retry scheduled
for next cycle

monitrc file
set mailserver smtp.mailgun.org  port 587 username "REMOVED FOR
OBVIOUS REASONS" password "REMOVED FOR OBVIOUS RAISINS"

Fedora uses ssmtp as a sendmail replacement and it contains the exact
same info as monitrc.

The permissions for /var/monit are 700 with root:root owner:group but
monit runs as root so that shouldn't be an issue.

Fix
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Deliberately broke the smtp info in monitrc.
Saw monit queue up a couple of alerts.
Changed permissions on /var/monit to 777
Fixed smtp info
Alerts sent once and files removed.


There was no monit user or monit group created when I installed it. It
looks like it's running under root to me but I admit I'm not 100%
sure.


Thanks for your quick resonse.



On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> please check Monit log ... there was probably some problem - either the 
> mailserver returned error the there was problem when it tried to remove the 
> queued file (such as permissions).
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> On 05 Sep 2014, at 19:13, Alex Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> While changing monit settings for my site I screwed up the regular
>> expression matching and monit generated an alert email as it should.
>> I fixed the problem but monit kept sending me emails saying it was not
>> matching. I finally noticed that the email was the same timestamp.
>> I removed the files from /var/monit and everything works now. Why does
>> monit not remove the cached alerts after it emails them?
>>
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