thank you so much. wouldn't necessarily call them cool. just easy to remember
what's on the drive. haha
On 14 August 2015 04:53:57 GMT+10:00, Jan-Henrik Haukeland
<[email protected]> wrote:
>The solution is kind of hidden in the manual [1] (unfortunately), but
>the short answer is, monitor the device not the mount-point, because if
>the disk “unmounts" the mount point will still be there right?
>
>So you need to figure out which device is behind your (cool)
>mount-point names,
>
>So instead of
>
>check filesystem snake-pliskin with path /mnt/snake-pliskin
> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/snake-pliskin”
>
>instead use
>
>check filesystem snake-pliskin with path /dev/some-usb-device
> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/snake-pliskin”
>
>
>1.
>https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#THE-MONIT-CONTROL-FILE
>section 4. CHECK FILESYSTEM <unique name> PATH <path>
>
>
>
>> On 13 Aug 2015, at 06:47, anon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Monit mailing list,
>>
>> I have several external hdd enclosures that sometimes like to unmount
>themselves for no apparent reason. I installed Monit to overcome this
>issue and so it could monitor and remount without me having to do it.
>Unfortunately Monit doesn't seem to pick that the drives unmounted.
>Here is what I have in the monitrc file.
>>
>> check filesystem citan-uzuki with path /mnt/citan-uzuki
>> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/citan-uzuki"
>> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/citan-uzuki"
>>
>> check filesystem hideo-kojima with path /mnt/hideo-kojima
>> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/hideo-kojima"
>> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/hideo-kojima"
>>
>> check filesystem snake-pliskin with path /mnt/snake-pliskin
>> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
>> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/snake-pliskin"
>>
>> check filesystem holder with path /mnt/holder
>> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/holder"
>> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/holder"
>>
>> check filesystem lucas-hood with path /mnt/lucas-hood
>> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/lucas-hood"
>> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/lucas-hood"
>>
>> check filesystem mr-robot with path /mnt/mr-robot
>> start program = "/bin/mount /mnt/mr-robot"
>> stop program = "/bin/umount /mnt/mr-robot
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dean
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