Hi Sergey, the magic is used to differentiate old state file format (which started with number of services) from the new extensible state file format (starts with 0, which is the "magic" - older monit versions will always start with number > 0).
It seems that the user's statefile is probably empty, hence the error is returned. The solution is simple: 1.) stop monit 2.) remove the state file: rm -f /var/lib/monit/state 3.) start monit (will create new state file) Regards, Martin On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > At the first startup of monit (just installed) users see: > [EDT Jun 24 21:26:20] error : State file '/var/lib/monit/state': Unable to > read magic > > Example: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/monit/+bug/1017327 > > That's normal? Is there any way to prevent this "confusing" message > for this case? > > _______________________________________________ > monit-dev mailing list > monit-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-dev _______________________________________________ monit-dev mailing list monit-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-dev
