Re: Please help: monit alerts make qmail complain!

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> Jeremy Henty <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
>
> > I am setting up monit for the first time to monitor AOLserver.  ATM,
> > I am running it in passive mode just to see what it does and does
> > not notice.  As a test I set the host to a bogus IP, and monit logs
> > these lines:
> >
> > [GMT Jan 21 16:40:31] 'nsd' timed out when testing INET[192.168.1.45:80] [HTTP]
> > [GMT Jan 21 16:40:31] Sendmail error: 451 See 
> > http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.
> >
> >    
>
> On a general note, someone ought to cover D. J. Bernstein with tar and
> feathers for reading the RFC 822 like the devil reads the bible. Uhm,
> that aside, I suspect the problem is partly due to the passive mode.
> It's probably not tested much and when I look at the code I see now
> that there is an error:
>
> - smtp_alert_failed is used in validate:do_restart when in passive
>    mode.
>
> - In alert.c:smtp_alert the event is thus DO_FAILED but this is not
>   in the notify[] array further down in the same function and thus
>   trigger an alert_on_timestamp instead of a failed event.
>
> (Martin, do you have time to fix this? If not, I can look into this a
> bit later). 
This one is fixed, the second one is strange. Can you sniff the 
communication and send the content of packets to the list Jeremy?

for example:

snoop -x 56 port 25 (solaris)
tcpdump -s 0 -xX port 25 (linux)

Thanks,
Martin