Hello Nick,
> I'm trying to detect that a program has stopped writing to its logfile but
> have been unable to come up with a working monit config to do so, has
> someone already done this and willing to share?
If you use Monit >= 5.22.0, you can define a check like this.
check file myapp_log with path /var/log/myapp.log
if timestamp is older than 1 hour then exec "/usr/bin/monit restart
myapp"
The test will restart "myapp" service if the timestamp was not modified
within last hour.
With regards,
Lutz
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