Incorrect hostname reporting

[Billy Vitro]

I just upgraded to monit 5.18, and now the hostname comes back with unprintable characters in all emails. When I back out the change to 5.17.1, the issue stops.

I'm running RHEL 6.2, which is running postfix for an MTA.

[Tildeslash]

Hello,

please can you send the following informations to [e-mail]?:

1. your monit configuration file
2. output of "hostname" command-line utility
3. sample of email with unprintable characters

[Billy Vitro]

Sent.

[Tildeslash]

Fix Issue #393 : The $HOST in mail alert can be incorrect if FQDN hostname cannot be found.

→ <<cset 932e0dbd4035>>

[Tildeslash]

Thanks for data Billy. It seems that the problem was caused when FQDN hostname cannot be found.

Checked in the fix, please can you test the development snapshot?:

wget https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/get/master.tar.gz
tar -xzf master.tar.gz
cd tildeslash-monit*
./bootstrap
./configure
make

[Billy Vitro]

That patch fixed the problem. Thanks!