check_postfix_queue

I think the postfix installer on debian set spermissions after each upgrade. (postfix set-permissions). So changing permission does not have a permanent effect. If you want to use this plugin after all without changing the owner of /var/spool/postfix subdirectories - then here is what I've done: # add user nagios to postfix group usermod -a -G postfix nagios # add user nagios to postdrop group usermod -a -G postdrop nagios # add user nagios to root group (very insecure) usermod -a -G root nagios # allow directory listing for all postfix directories find /var/spool/postfix -type d -exec chmod g+x {} +

Great plugin, it works well. Thanks. Please update to use this regex instead, as it supports both short and long postfix QIDs: queue_id='^(?:[0-9A-F]{10,11}|[0-9A-Za-z]{14,16})!s'

I've just installed your nagios plugin 'check_postfix_queue' , but I don't know the log file that it checks. I have Plesk installed in my server and the maillog path is not the default /var/log/maillog but is /usr/local/psa/var/log. If your Plugin checks the dafault path, is there a possibility to change it ? I would really appreciate your help.

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Thank you for sharing! Which is the best way of setting script permissions without (or minimizing) security issues?

This doesn't actually work, although you may not realise it because it *seems* to work just fine. Postfix queue directories are only readable by root and the postfix user. NRPE commands are executed by the nagios user, which cannot see inside postfix's queue directories. Normal user, shows 0 in all queues: $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_postfix_queue OK: incoming queue messages: 0 active queue messages: 0 maildrop queue messages: 0 deferred queue messages: 0 bounce queue messages: 0 Nagios user, shows 0 in all queues: $ sudo -u nagios /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_postfix_queue OK: incoming queue messages: 0 active queue messages: 0 maildrop queue messages: 0 deferred queue messages: 0 bounce queue messages: 0 As root, reports correct numbers: $ sudo /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_postfix_queue OK: incoming queue messages: 0 active queue messages: 1358 maildrop queue messages: 0 deferred queue messages: 2922 bounce queue messages: 0

Does what it says on the tin!

check_postfix_queue works great. Thanks!

Simple, very portable, awesome. Thanks for posting this. I wanted to make some pretty RRD graphs too so I added a perfdata section. The patch is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?r965aj299gd09cm