And now for something quite different…. Some monitoring-scripts are mailing to me, for example the backup-script (will do it later on in Grid Control….). For a few nodes in the DMZ this didn’t work anymore. And actually I don’t want to know what is going on, but at the place I work there’s no Linux admin in the neighbourhood. So I can give it a try…
Appeared that the network-boys (no girls..) changed some configuration (mx-records or something like this). Logging and “mailq” gave ‘Name service error’.
Suse 9, x64-bit. Solution:
Command I use for mailing to me: ‘ cat <doc> | mailx -s “backup-result node x” <mail-recipient> ‘
The nodes in the DMZ appeared to have no DNS (tried ‘nslookup’ for example). The mail used is postfix (ps -ef |grep postfix).
configuration in /etc/postfix/main.cf mentioned:
” relayhost = mailserver.domain.nl “
This mailserver was also configured in /etc/hosts:
196.18.18.10 mailserver.domain.nl mailserver
What was lacking:
disable_dns_lookups =yes in /etc/postfix/main.cf.
reboot or reload postfix (root):
‘postfix stop / start ‘
or ‘postfix reload’ .
And in business again…
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