I'm still running monit 4.10.1 (debian lenny package). I should take time to
backport monit 5.0.

Thanks!

Philippe Muller


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote:

> It was fixed in monit 5.0 ... changelog excerpt:
>
> --8<--
> * Support use of symbolic links in filesystem check. Thanks to
>   Aleksander Kamenik for suggestion. Example:
>     check filesystem rootfs path
>          /dev/disk/by-uuid/4ef973f7-67d1-4bb0-8223-cb1c692b72e4
>       if space usage > 95% then alert
>       if inode usage > 95% then alert
> --8<--
>
> you can get monit version using 'monit -V'
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Philippe Muller wrote:
>
> Except... It doesn't work.
>
> 1 - I don't understand why udev doesn't create all label symlinks
>
> # e2label /dev/sda3
> opt
> # ls /dev/disk/by-label/
> slash  ssd
>
> 2 - Monit doesn't like symlinks ?!
>
> monit[2865]: 'ssd' unable to read device /dev/disk/by-label/ssd state
>
>
> I guess it's easier to check volumes by their real device name!
>
>
> Philippe Muller
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Philippe Muller <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Thanks to you, I justs discovered some great default udev rules.
>> By the way, udev also manages another directory on my debian systems :
>> /dev/disk/by-label
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Philippe Muller
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> labels are not supported currently but you can use UUID of the filesystem
>>> like this:
>>>
>>>  check filesystem with path
>>> /dev/disk/by-uuid/67544096-06a6-4f68-bed1-b03398641fb7
>>>
>>> ... there are also alternative names in /dev/disk/by-id/ and
>>> /dev/disk/by-path/ or you can use the mountpoint instead of device name.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:55:30AM +0200, Philippe Muller wrote:
>>> > Hi Monit !
>>> >
>>> > Instead of checking my devices by their name (/dev/sda1), I'd like to
>>> check
>>> > them by their label (the one defined by the -L switch of mkfs.ext3 /
>>> > mkfs.xfs).
>>> > Is it possible? How?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
>>> > Philippe Muller
>>>
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