On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:09:43 +0100, Sarah Caswell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a mailserver with smtpd (on OpenBSD) for a small group of folks > and get some (very occasional) crashes - usually just corrupted sessions. > No big deal, a restart of smtpd is all that it takes. > > I'm trying to create a Monit (v 4.10.1) recipe that will automatically > restart the smtpd process for me, but it just doesn't work. > I found the recipe below on a Linux list for monitoring services that don't > write a pidfile. > > -----recipe is currently ---- > > check host localhost with address www.xxx.yyy.zzz > start program = "/usr/libexec/smtpd -f /etc/mail/smtpd.conf"
I'm not familiar with Monit, but /usr/libexec/smtpd is a directory, not an executable. You may wish to try /usr/sbin/smtpd instead. Regards, Tim > stop program = "pkill smtpd" > if failed host www.xxx.yyy.zzz port 25 type tcp protocol smtp then restart > > -------------- > > Is anyone here using monit to successfully restart smtpd? > > Any info appreciated. > > :-) > > Sarah > > -- > "Go out on a limb. Thats where the fruit is" - Jimmy Carter
