Hi Paul, By any chance, does the user running monit have the right privileges to run `burcado status`? Also, you might debug the status command by displaying its output to STDERR.
Regards Vincent 2014-07-21 23:44 GMT+02:00 Paul Theodoropoulos <[email protected]>: > I have a daemon which I want to monitor specific status. I've created > the following script called 'bucardo.monitor': > > #!/bin/sh > bucardo status |grep mydb|cut -d"|" -f4| grep ".m" >/dev/null 2>&1 > exit $? > > In short, if the string "(one char)m" exists, I wish to get an alert. When > I run the script from the command line, and the string I'm looking for > exists, I get the following expected output: > > me# bucardo.monitor;echo $? > 0 > > I created a monit conf file thus: > > alert [email protected] with reminder on 5 cycle > alert [email protected] with reminder on 5 cycle > check program bucardo-monitor with path /usr/local/bin/bucardo.monitor > with timeout 3 seconds > if status = 0 then alert > > The manual states that the operator should be "==", however the last > example under status only uses a single equals sign - and I've tried both, > no difference. I've also use just "if status 0 then alert" as suggested in > the manual, also no difference. > > The problem is that monit always shows a last exit status of "1" - except > for a few moments after issuing 'monit reload' to deploy changes to the > script: > > Program 'bucardo-monitor' > status Status ok > monitoring status Monitored > last started Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:40:47 > last exit value 1 > data collected Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:40:47 > > > I've forced the test to be highly sensitive so that it will changed from > an exit of 0 to 1 every few minutes, well within my monitoring window - but > again, I never get a status other than 1 in monit status, and thus never > get an alert. > > Am I doing something wrong? Misunderstanding? > > -- > Paul Theodoropouloswww.anastrophe.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >
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