Hi, Access: 2012-01-16 23:55:16.000000000 +0000 Modify: 2012-01-16 23:55:16.000000000 +0000 Change: 2012-01-18 09:45:01.000000000 +0000
That's it then, the ctime is changing, which is wierd because there is no change to the file itself. I need another way to be alerted when the file changes, MD5sum perhaps Nick Upson On 17 January 2012 21:49, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > can you get the "stat" output for that file? Monit tests the mtime > (content modification time) and ctime (inode modification time - owner, > permission, etc.), the event is generated if one of them changed. The "ls" > won't display ctime by default, to display the ctime with ls, you can use: > "ls -lc" > > Regards, > Martin > > > > On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Nick Upson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I continue to get alerts from the config entry below even when the file > hasn't changed, it doesn't happen every cycle either. > > The log extract below it changing yet the file hasn't changed since 16:14 > > > > check file firebirdlog with path /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > if changed timestamp then alert > > > > [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check > succeeded > > [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > > [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check > succeeded > > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed > for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] info : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed > for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check > succeeded > > [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > > [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check > succeeded > > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed > for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] info : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed > for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check > succeeded > > [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > > [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check > succeeded > > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed > for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] info : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed > for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check > succeeded > > [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > > [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > > > Nick Upson > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >
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