Hello, which monit version exactly you use?
Regards, Martin On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Rishad Omar wrote: > Hello, > > I finally installed monit version 5 but can't get monit to stop alerting > about file existence. > > Ideally, I just want an alert when there is a timeout. So, no alert on > "exist" and "nonexist". > > This is my configuration: > check file mylock path /some/where/lock > if timestamp > 5 minutes > then exec "some command" > alert [email protected] only on { timestamp } > #alert [email protected] but not on { nonexist } ... tried > this too excl/incl the line above! > > > I have looked at documentation as you suggested, Martin, but can't > figure it out. I expected that "only on timeout" should exclude > everything else. > > Your help much appreciated. Rishad > > > > On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 18:47 +0100, Martin Pala wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> you can set mail filter to suppress existence alert: >> >> >> alert f...@bar but not on { nonexist } >> >> >> See manual for more details: >> http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#setting_a_local_alert_statement >> >> >> Note: the "not" option requires monit-5.x >> >> >> Regards, >> Martin >> >> >> >> On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Rishad Omar wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> I'd like to monitor the timestamp of a file and execute my command >>> when >>> the file is 'old'. But I don't want to be alerted if the file exists >>> nor >>> if the the file doesn't exist. >>> That is, I want to be alerted ONLY if the file exists and is older >>> than >>> 10 mins. >>> >>> The following works fine with the timestamp but in addition I get >>> alerted when the file exists and then later that it doesn't exist. >>> >>> check file lock path /some/path/lock >>> if timestamp > 10 minutes >>> then exec "/some/command" >>> >>> I tried the following, but it hasn't helped: >>> >>> check file lock path /some/path/lock >>> start program = "/bin/touch /tmp/1.1" >>> if timestamp > 10 minutes >>> then exec "/some/command" >>> >>> Thanks, Rishad >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
