Hello, does the user under which monit runs have access to /dev/cciss/c0d0p5?
The symbolic links problem should be solved with upgrade to Monit 5.2.5 which had fix for it. Alternatively you can specify mountpoint which should work without problems: check filesystem rootfs with path / ... Regards, Martin On May 18, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Marcus Mülbüsch wrote: > Hello all, > > I upgraded a gentoo-server to OpenRC and baselayout2. All went well. > > However, monit-5.2.3 now complains about not being able to access the root > filesystem: > > "Data access error Service root_fs > > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:37:32 +0200 > Action: alert > Host: dl360 > Description: unable to read filesystem /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 state > > Your faithful employee, > Monit" > > Only the root filesystem is affected, all other filesystems are still > monitored by monit. > > I note that /etc/mtab has changed from: > >> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0 > > to: > >> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 >> /dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0 > > > and /dev/root now is a link: /dev/root -> cciss/c0d0p5 > > However, after changing the relevant lines in the monitrc file from: > >> check device root_fs with path /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 > > to: > >> check device root_fs with path /dev/root > > the error does not go away. > > I posted it on the gentoo forum but did not get a reply so far. Anyone here > has an idea what did change? Or whether there is a suitable workaround? > > Marcus > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
