Help with an external script

[bmclaughlin]

I'm having a terrible time getting external scripts to work.

I had one working, then after a reboot it suddenly quit working, and I haven't been able to get them working again. I was able to get around needing that script with simple checks, but now I'm in need of a script again, and can't get it working.

What I need is a count of waiting e-mails on a pop account. I came up with the following scripts (don't laugh, I'm a scripting newbie! go easy on me!)

[root@Zabbix externalscripts]# cat test1.sh
/etc/zabbix/externalscripts/test.sh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [email protected] xxxxxxx | grep messages | gawk '{print $5;}'

[root@Zabbix externalscripts]# cat test.sh
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn telnet [lindex $argv 0] 110
expect "POP server ready"
send "user "
send [lindex $argv 1]
send "\n"
expect "password required for user"
send "pass "
send [lindex $argv 2]
send "\n"
expect "messages"
send "quit\n"

Here's what's in the log:

3666:20091112:155728 Parameter [test1.sh] is not supported by agent on host [tpmail] Old status [0]

Attached is a screenshot of the item in Zabbix.

What am I doing wrong?

The script works perfectly from the command line as user Zabbix.

[bmclaughlin]

A genius friend of mine came up with this:

checkpop.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::POP3;

my $pop = Net::POP3->new($ARGV[0]);

if ($pop->login($ARGV[1],$ARGV[2])) {
        my @count = $pop->popstat();
        print $count[0]."\n";
        $pop->quit();
}
else {
        print "ERROR!\n";
        exit 1;
}

exit 0;

Item: checkpop.pl[username password]

For the host you have to use the e-mail server name or IP.

Works great! I have the smartest friends in the world!