Nagios user problem..????

[joed5500]

I’m a newbie……I am typing this command at the command prompt to do a test to see if i can send email but I get NOTHING ….anyone know why…plz help….
??? ??? :'( :'(

# echo |mail -s "alert alert " [email protected]

(not using my real email…haha)

[pbharris]

hello,
the command you used worked fine for me – i am using mailx – what are you using?

[joed5500]

the guy who usually tinkers with this is on vacation , he had told me once that it was mailx I tried the same command using sendmail and it didn’t work either….confused…

# echo |sendmail -s "alert alert " [email protected] >

[dayakar]

Sir can any one please help me how to install nagios in linux and from there how to monitor the windows Desktop and Server machines

[svar]

Are you trying to send the mail as a user?
Do you or the particular user have permission to send mail? If not give permission to use the command.