Re: [Networker] RHEL6 mail savegroup notifications

I just hit this same problem after migrating from Solaris 10 toCentOS 6.3. The problem in my case is with Hebrew characters in thesavegrp notifications. The man page for mailx clearly states that itwill send the mail as application octet-stream attachment if it sees anyunprintable characters. I switched to mutt ("yum install mutt"). Allnotifications go to /usr/ucb/Mail (that has never changed since SunOS4.1.3/Networker 5.5 days, I was copying /nsr/res between servers), so Ijust "cd /usr/ucb ; ln -s /usr/bin/mutt Mail"). So far it seems to work.


On 02/07/2012 08:53 PM, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Tim_Mooney?= wrote:

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:31:20 -0600, Eugene Vilensky <evilensky AT GMAIL DOT COM> 
wrote:

I have a RHEL 6.1 server that is sending savegroup notifications as
attachments (subject.dat file) and not in the body of a message.

I tested at the command line and was able to resolve the issue by
adding "set encode 7bit" to /etc/mail.rc, so now any ASCII encoded
files show up as the message body, however the NetWorker notifications
are still coming in as attachments.

I know I'm missing something obvious...any hints?


Sorry to be replying to a thread that's three months old, but I ran into
this same issue last week when I upgraded our primary NetWorker server to
RHEL 6.2.

Doing some investigation, all of the savegrp notifications that exhibited
the problems had warning or error messages from Windows clients, and the
client messages had \r\n line endings.  It was the \r that was causing mailx
to treat the message body as application/octet-stream.

To resolve the issue, I modified our "Notification" for savegrp and savegrp
failure to have

     /usr/bin/tr -d '\\r' |

before the /bin/mail command.  Note the double \

That seems to have fixed it for us.

Tim



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