Greetings Monit Community!
I'm working on a project that would like the ability to re-load the monit
configuration automatically when it changes.
In the simplest case, this result can be produced with a monit rule that
sends SIGHUP to the monit process whenever the main monit configuration
file changes, for example:
check file monit_config with path /path/to/monitrc
if changed checksum then exec "/usr/bin/killall -s SIGHUP monit"
1. As a preliminary question -- can you see an issue with this pattern?
It does seem to be working as expected. However, the intended design is to
have the main monit configuration file call
include /path/to/monit.d/*
and to allow third parties to add or change files in this directory.
2. Is there an existing way to check for changes (and additions and
deletions) to any file within a directory (it does not appear to be baked
in). If not, is there a standard way that this has been accomplished by
others? I can see a number of possible solutions. (A script to generate a
checksum of all files, a separate application that uses inotify and sets a
flag, etc)
3. Would there be interest by the community in taking a patch that allows
the option to automatically re-load the configuration files if they
change. Somethilng like a "set autoreload" in the config file which would
trigger monit to monitor it's own configuration?
4. Would there be interest by the community in a patch that allows
watching a given directory for any changes?
Best Regards,
Eric
