I'm struggling to understand exactly what your setup is but what ever it is you have to do it so that a log file is generated. Maybe /var/log/messages will contain the string you need. I start ffmpeg with an init.d script called 'stream', and this script creates a pid file at /var/run/stream.pid and also starts a log at /var/log/stream.log. In monit.conf I have this:
check process stream with pidfile /var/run/stream.pid start program = "/etc/init.d/stream start" with timeout 10 seconds stop program = "/etc/init.d/stream stop &&" and I also have this in monit.conf: check file <filename>.log with path /path/to/<filename>.log if match "<certain text string in the log file>" then exec "<command>" you would have to change <filename>.log to the log that your using _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".