You can build the rpm directly from monit source code distribution (this rpm
installs the /etc/monitrc properly):
rpmbuild -tb monit-5.4.tar.gz
Regarding the chkconfig - yes, your output confirms that monit is set to run in
runlevels 3, 4, 5 (default runlevel is usually 3 or 5, you can verify your
default runlevel in /etc/inittab).
Monit stop: i suppose the rpm installed monit init script (/etc/init.d/monit)
=> you can stop monit with "/etc/init.d/monit stop" or via monit CLI: "monit
quit".
Regards,
Martin
On May 14, 2012, at 4:04 AM, sukbir singh wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> Yes mine is from 3rd party. So where is the right place to
> pick the right version of monit for centos 6.2? I run chkconfig monit
> 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off. So is this fine?
> What is the command to stop monit I tried monit stop it does not work either?
> I dont get you how to create the link for the configuration file? Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Shai.
>
>
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Problem starting my monit
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 21:28:04 +0200
> To: [email protected]
>
> If monit was installed via 3rd party package, it's up to the vendor of the
> package where they install the configuration file, etc. Per your description
> it seems that the install the configuration file as /etc/monit.conf, but
> because your monit binary wasn't able to find it and was looking for default
> monitrc, it seems that they didn't modify the configuration path search.
> Maybe their init script uses the "-c /etc/monit.conf" option to set the
> configuration file path. You can verify whether monit is registered to start
> on boot with "chkconfig" utility. You can keep the rpm package - i'd just
> suggest to create link for the configuration file (/etc/monit.conf ->
> /etc/monitrc)
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> On May 13, 2012, at 2:37 PM, sukbir singh wrote:
>
> Dear Martin,
> Actually I took this monit-5.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm file from
> this link http://pkgs.repoforge.org/monit/ and run command rpm -ivh
> monit-5.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm for my centos 6.2. So I tried to find monitrc
> and there is no such file in my system only /etc/monit.conf. So is it ok for
> me to change the monit.conf to monitrc?After changing and creating the
> /var/monit. I did this now looks ok.
>
> /etc/init.d/monit start
> Starting monit: monit: generated unique Monit id
> be30cd9f43337901d0f4a48f3ac33712 and stored to '/var/monit/id'
> Starting monit daemon with http interface at [localhost:2812]
> [ OK ]
> Is this the right way to run monit or someother way? What is it init.d is
> already a registered service? Just to test monit I have down the service
> which monit is suppose to monitor but there is no alert sent so where to look
> out next? Thank you
>
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Problem starting my monit
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 14:06:52 +0200
> To: [email protected]
>
> Hi,
>
> the default monit configuration file name is "monitrc", not "monit.conf"
> (that is used by some 3rd party packages which modify the source code to find
> the monit.conf instead of monitrc).
>
> The idfile error is repotted most probably because your configuration file
> contains "set idfile /var/monit/id" statement, but the directory
> "/var/monit/" most probably doesnt exist => the unique id cannot be saved to
> the given location. The id is used when Monit is configured with M/Monit to
> pair the host entry in M/Monit with messages from Monit (pairing by source IP
> address won't be reliable, as the monit agents can be behind firewall with IP
> masquerading, so all the agents would update one host entry and you'll
> sporadically see services of different hosts under the same entry, hence the
> concept of per-instance ID).
>
> To fix the idfile error:
>
> mkdir /var/monit
>
> + set the permissions on that directory to allow the user under which monit
> is running to write to this directory.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
>
> On May 13, 2012, at 6:54 AM, sukbir singh wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> I have this file monit.conf in my /etc so I set my mail server and set the
> receiver.
>
> 1. I set the mail server
> 2. set alert *****
> 3. I un-comment the the message format
> Quote:
> set mail-format {
> from: monit@$HOST
> subject: monit alert -- $EVENT $SERVICE
> message: $EVENT Service $SERVICE
> Date: $DATE
> Action: $ACTION
> Host: $HOST
> Description: $DESCRIPTION
>
> Your faithful employee,
> Monit
> }
> Lastly I added this line to check my java process which is ran as a daemon
> using yajsw.
>
> Quote:
> check process commServer with pidfile /var/run/wrapper.commServer8000.pid #
> check your app pid
> if failed port 8000 protocol HTTP
> then alert
> So thereafter I ran this command
> Quote:
> /etc/init.d/monit start
> Starting monit: monit: Cannot find the control file at ~/.monitrc,
> /etc/monitrc, /etc/monitrc, /usr/local/etc/monitrc or at ./monitrc
> [FAILED]
> The I change the monit.conf to monitrc
>
> Quote:
> /etc/init.d/monit start
> Starting monit: monit: Error opening the idfile '/var/monit/id' -- No such
> file or directory
> Starting monit daemon with http interface at [localhost:2812]
> [ OK ]
> Then lastly I run this to check if monit running but nothing either too. So
> where could be my mistake?
>
> Quote:
> /etc/init.d/monit start
> Starting monit: monit: Error opening the idfile '/var/monit/id' -- No such
> file or directory
> Starting monit daemon with http interface at [localhost:2812]
> [ OK ]
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