Re: [monit-dev] Unable to read magic

[Martin Pala]

Hi Sergey,

the magic is used to differentiate old state file format (which started with 
number of services) from the new extensible state file format (starts with 0, 
which is the "magic" - older monit versions will always start with number > 0).

It seems that the user's statefile is probably empty, hence the error is 
returned.

The solution is simple:

1.) stop monit
2.) remove the state file: rm -f /var/lib/monit/state
3.) start monit (will create new state file)

Regards,
Martin



On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev <address@hidden> wrote:

> At the first startup of monit (just installed) users see:
> [EDT Jun 24 21:26:20] error : State file '/var/lib/monit/state': Unable to 
> read magic
> 
> Example:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/monit/+bug/1017327
> 
> That's normal?  Is there any way to prevent this "confusing" message
> for this case?
> 
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