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Hai,
I am not able to implement email alerts in rsyslog. I have changed my configuration file as shown below
$ModLoad ommail
$ActionMailSMTPServer mailserver's address
$ActionMailFrom root@localhost.com
$ActionMailTo prakash.akumalla@xxxx.com
$template mailSubject,"disk problem on %hostname%"
$template mailBody,"RSYSLOG Alert\r\nmsg='%msg%'"
$ActionMailSubject mailSubject

$ActionExecOnlyOnceEveryInterval 60
*.* mmail:;mailBody

Should i change or add any thing else.

• Custom written rsyslog.conf?
• Maintenance Contract?
• Installation support?

I just used this config and it works for me. What is your actual issue? Do you never receive a message? Or only one?

Hai,
Thanks for your reply. I too used the same config file and did not receive even one mail from two days. I used the same what i have written earlier. please check once.

Hai,
Thanks for your reply. I too used the same config file and did not receive even one mail from two days. I used the same what i have written earlier. please check once.

please use a *.* mail rule and check if a message goes through. Let me know the result. If no message goes through, I need a debug log.

lol, wrong case You already use a *.* rule. So what I need now is a *complete* debug log (run rsyslogd interactively with -dn) of a rsyslog startup. If that's too much to post, you can mail me privately at rgerhards-at-gmail.com.

Hai,
I used *.* just to check whether the changes in the config file are working or not. I found that its not working. I have send a mail to your private gmail about the problem completly.

Hi, you seem to have forgotten the debug log in the google mail. I need this, otherwise I can not help

Hi,

I have sent it to your gmail.

I think we are misunderstanding each other

What I need is a *debug log* not a config file. You obtain this by running rsyslogd interactively and adding -dn to your normal actions. eg. like this

$ rsyslogd -dn > debuglog

(press ctrl-C after a short while of running).

The config file does not show me the source of the problem (at least this is my current school of thinking, to be refined after getting the debug file. Note that debug files can get quite large, what is OK with me.

I hope this clarifies.

Rainer

Hi,

I got it. I have send it now to ur gmail.

Exellent. The relevant line is this here:

logmsg: flags 5, from 'server', msg could not load module '/usr/local/lib/rsyslog/ommail.so', dlopen: /usr/local/lib/rsyslog/ommail.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This message should also exist in /var/log/messages.

In essence, it says that you do not have the ommail plugin installed. If you build rsyslogd from a source tarball, you need to add --enable-mail to the ./configure options. If you installed it from a package, you need to find out which package provides the mail functionality.

Hi,
Sorry to say you that I have enabled mail and even then I did not get any mail to the given address

Please send me a new debug log.

Hai,
I have send it to your gmail.