[2] [notification helper XXXXX] invalid signal byte ASCII 76, expected '*'

[thorian93 (Robin Gierse)]

I am getting a lot of messages in var/log/cmc.log for all of my sites looking like this:

[2] [notification helper XXXXX] invalid signal byte ASCII 76, expected '*'

I am not using any custom notification plugins, just HTML Mail and ASCII Mail.

Does anyone have a clue what this means?

[ChristianM (Christian Michaelski)]

Did you look in ~/var/log at all logfiles releated to notification like mknotifyd (CEE) or notify log?

[thorian93 (Robin Gierse)]

As far as I can tell, there are no obvious errors in the logs.

@edit: My statement about nonfunctional ASCII mails has been proven wrong, so I am apparently just stuck with this message in the cmc.log.

[thorian93 (Robin Gierse)]

See the folloing post for further investigation, I was able to clarify some more details.

Weird behavior with notifications after upgrade to 2.0

Consider this: After the upgrade of our CME environment from 1.6.0p22 to 2.0.0p3 we discovered after some days, that notifications seem missing. Well at least in the connected ticket system which receives emails from our satellite. The weird thing about it is, that I can see successful notifications in Checkmk and the nullmailer log reports that mails have been send. But somehow the ticket system does not show tickets, although a manual test mail worked as expected. I am not using any custom not…

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@thorian93

I am getting a lot of messages in var/log/cmc.log for all of my sites

please change this global setting to “Normal logging”

[thorian93 (Robin Gierse)]

I am gonna mark this as the solution here, as the messages stop right after adjusting that setting.

Thanks!

For further information refer to the dedicated post linked above.

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This problem will be fixed with werk #12758