I did sudo apt-get install monit but it only installs version 5.9 and the current version is 5.17.1. So I did
wget https://mmonit.com/monit/dist/binary/5.17.1/monit-5.17.1-linux-x64.tar.gz to download the precompiled binaries and now I have these files: monit-5.17.1/bin/monit monit-5.17.1/conf/monitrc monit-5.17.1/man/man1/monit.1 I checked where MONIT is installed with "dpkg -S monit | sort": monit: /etc/default/monit monit: /etc/init.d/monit monit: /etc/logrotate.d/monit monit: /etc/monit monit: /etc/monit/conf.d monit: /etc/monit/monitrc monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/acpid monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/apache2 monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/at monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/cron monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/mdadm monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/memcached monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/mysql monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/nginx monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/openntpd monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/openssh-server monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/pdns-recursor monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/postfix monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/rsyslog monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/smartmontools monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/snmpd monit: /etc/monit/templates monit: /etc/monit/templates/rootbin monit: /etc/monit/templates/rootrc monit: /etc/monit/templates/rootstrict monit: /etc/pam.d/monit monit: /usr/bin/monit monit: /usr/share/bug/monit monit: /usr/share/doc/monit monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/changelog.Debian.gz monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/CONTRIBUTORS monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/copyright monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/examples monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/examples/monit.service monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/examples/monit.upstart monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/NEWS.Debian.gz monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/README.Debian monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/README.gz monit: /usr/share/lintian/overrides/monit monit: /usr/share/man/man1/monit.1.gz monit: /var/lib/monit monit: /var/lib/monit/events I know how to handle the conf-file monitrc but I don't know in which paths I have to replace the file monit (only at /usr/bin/monit or somewhere else?) and if this the correct way to upgrade at all. -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
