Package: netdata Version: 1.5.0+dfsg-4 Severity: normal Hi!
With exim4 being the default MTA on Debian, the health_alarm_notification will not work unless the following directories are writeable from the netdata namespace: ,---- | ReadWriteDirectories=-/var/spool/exim4 | ReadWriteDirectories=-/var/log/exim4 `---- Otherwise you only get the messages like this in your syslog everytime a notification is sent (or to be precise: "not sent"). ,---- | Mar 1 19:31:54 ds9 exim[1514966]: 2017-03-01 19:31:54 [1514966] 1cj92X-006M6s-V0 Spool error for /var/spool/exim4//input//1cj92X-006M6s-V0-D: Permission denied | Mar 1 19:31:54 ds9 exim[1514966]: 2017-03-01 19:31:54 [1514966] 1cj92X-006M6s-V0 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim4/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=0 egid=112 | Mar 1 19:31:54 ds9 exim[1514966]: exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above `---- Grüße, Sven. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages netdata depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii init-system-helpers 1.47 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libcap2-bin 1:2.25-1 ii libuuid1 2.29.1-1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii netdata-data 1.5.0+dfsg-4 ii python 2.7.13-2 ii python-yaml 3.12-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages netdata recommends: pn nodejs <none> netdata suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/netdata/health.d/disks.conf changed [not included] /etc/netdata/health_alarm_notify.conf changed [not included] /etc/netdata/netdata.conf changed [not included] /etc/netdata/python.d/apache.conf changed [not included] -- debconf-show failed -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /lib/systemd/system/netdata.service (from netdata package)
