Alfredo Deza spake the following on 9/6/2007 10:41 AM:
> Wow, what a mess I just made.
>
> I installed the RPM package from Dag Wieers repository. I am
using
> CentOS 4.1 and everything was fine. So to install the BETA
version I
> removed Dag's package by doing:
>
> rpm -e monit
>
> Which uninstalled monit.
>
> Then I did a wget of the source ( 4.10 beta) , compiled and
> installed. But it seems monit wasnt working well, it didnt have a
> pid file and couldnt recognize the services.I couldnt even do
> /etc/init.d/monit start
>
> So I went ahead to uninstall monit and within the 4.10
directory did:
>
> make uninstall
>
> Perfect.
>
> Went ahead and reinstalled the RPM package and now I have my
monit
> pid file but with a broken monit:
>
> -bash: /usr/local/bin/monit/: no such file or directory
>
> I still have the configuration file and I can do:
>
> /etc/init.d/monit start
> /etc/init.d/monit restart
> /etc/init.d/monit stop
>
> But it does nothing, no web interface, no nothing.
>
> Could you guys PLEASE help me get this working again? I just
need to
> have this as stable as possible (why did I tried to get 4.10???).
>
> So, to make this plea short:
>
> 1.- Need to get a complete uninstall/removal of monit
> 2.- Then a fresh install of monit 4.9 with the RPM package
>
> Hopefully I will have this working in no time.
>
> Thanks again so much for your patience and help,
>
>
> --
> Alfredo Deza
>
>
> Ok, just an update (sorry for the spam)
>
> Since bash couldnt find monit I did wget monit-4.9 compiled it and
> copied monit to /usr/local/bin/monit/
>
> So that fixed that problem and now I have monit running.
>
> BUT
>
> Monit doesnt start/stop/restart correctly (although I see OK when
I try)
> when doing /etc/init.d/
>
> It just starts by:
>
> monit -v
>
> And it shows that monit doesnt have a PID file at /var/run/monit.pid
>
> Any ideas to this whole mess I created?
>
Did you try rpm with the --replacefiles option?
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Early today I tried the rpm --replacefiles and it seems to be working.
I can start monit with init.d
There should be a thorough guide as to how to upgrade / downgrade or
uninstall monit, not because we dont want it, but just for situations
like this.
I offer my time if someone is willing to help me out, as my process
hasnt been clean at all.
Because this is an important server, I think its better to wait for the
email verification option in 4.10 unless someone comes with a good
solution for not being able to send email notifications.
The easiest solution would be to get the admin of the mail server to allow
your monit box to send mail unauthenticated, or let you send on a different
port like the submission port.
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