RE: monit debian package

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Good suggestion, I guess we can do both, that is print to the console *and* log
an error message. Allthough I think we should dump the error message to
whatever log file the user has setup in monitrc, which of course could be
syslog.

Jan-Henrik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fredrik Steen [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 17. desember 2002 12:52
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: monit debian package
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm the maintainer of the Debian-package of monit, the program works
> very well
> and have quite som users now. I have a "wish" for the next relese of
> monit and
> that is when monit fails to parse the configfile or the permission of the
> configfile is wrong it will be logged to syslog. The problem is when monit is
> started from init it prints out something like
>
> "
> Starting monit daemon
> Starting httpd at port [2812]
> "
>
> And the debian way of starting programs is
>
> "Starting daemon monitor: monit."
>
> So i have to redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null and when the permission is
> wrong != 0700 the output is printed on stderr and it's very hard to find out
> what is wrong for the users.. I have added a permission check now, kind of
> workaround for the moment but it would be nice if all errors could be logged
> to syslog...
>
>
> --
> .Fredrik Steen
> - http://www.stone.nu/ -