[Nagiosplug-devel] Recent patch to check_smtp.c
Subhendu Ghosh
sghosh at sghosh.org
Thu Jun 13 12:57:02 CEST 2002
I guess one could add a regex to see if the initial 220 response matches
some thing unique to Exchange..
Could you post a 220 response from an Exchange server - I am happily
ignorant on that issue :)
Also if this is causing you problems right now - just change the
SMTP_USE_DUMMYCMD to 0..
-sg
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Benjamin Madsen wrote:
> Running the recent patch against a Microsoft 2000 Server w/ Exchange SMTP
> agent caused problems with the SMTP_DUMMYCMD check. Apparently, Exchange's
> SMTP agent looks for a '\r\n' as opposed to just a '\n'. Since I am
> unfamiliar with how to patch things, could somebody do that?
>
> Also, I'm wondering what implications changing the SMTP_DUMMCMD to
> "MAIL\r\n" would be... Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Madsen
> IT Manager
> Wisp Communications
> http://www.wispcommunications.com
>
> --- Original Message ---
> FROM: Karl Ewald
> DATE: 06/09/2002 12:12:36
> SUBJECT: [Nagiosplug-devel] patch for check_smtp.c
> Hi plugin developers,
>
> sendmail will create a syslog entry when a session only issues a quit
> command, looking roughly like this:
> Jun 9 19:50:44 beaulieu.ixos.de sendmail[26790]: NOQUEUE: mucnm01.ixos.de
> [149.
> 235.38.10] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
>
> This clobbers the syslog of every machine where SMTP is checked and can be
> prevented by issuing a command. Thze following patch does just that.
> It is a diff against the netsaint-plugins-1.2.9-4 plugins/check_smtp.c file
> (which I checked in locally as 1.1).
> Apologies if this change was already made in the latest release of the
> plugins, I haven't checked.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Karl Ewald
> Network Administrator, IT Services
> IXOS Software AG http://www.ixos.com/
>
>
>
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