Wow, replaced the domain name with the IP address and it came back up! Seems
the box is having DNS issues at the moment.
Thank you very much for your help! I never would have been able to track
that down from the error message "http server: Could not create a server
socket at port 2812 -- No such file or directory"

cheers,
mark


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote:

> It could be probably also caused by unresolvable hostname or invalid IP
> address in "set httpd" statement (which was snipped in your post).
>
> It is not very likely, but has the "set httpd" part changed? Can you try to
> use IP address instead of hostname (and verify the IP address is correct and
> up on host where Monit is running).
>
> If it won't help, please get strace of Monit like this and send output?:
>
>
> strace -f -o monit.strace <path_to_monit>/monit -vIc <path_to_monitrc>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Mark Beattie wrote:
>
> It's using /etc/monit/monitrc, but it's been working fine that way for a
> long time. All I did was add a another service to monitor and restart it,
> but since then it's http server has been dead. So of course the first thing
> I did was remove the service, but no change...
> cheers
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Eric Pailleau <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Mark Beattie a écrit :
>>
>>> Yeah, definitely no zombie processes, and starting/stopping it using an
>>> init.d script as root.
>>>
>>> There's always some stake holder who asks "but what happens if the
>>> monitor dies?", to which the usual response is <face-palm> :)
>>>
>>>
>> I faced another issue in past while changing from src compiled to debian
>> package :
>>
>> monitrc was not in same directory.
>>
>> Debian package look for
>> /etc/monitrc
>>
>> While my config was in
>> /etc/monit/monitrc
>>
>> So I needed to create a /etc/monitrc with a simple include of
>> /etc/monit/monitrc .
>>
>> Have a look that you are loading the right monitrc.
>>
>>
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