Re: Unable to exec external script

[Martin Pala]

Dragan Zubac wrote:
> Anyway,what am I trying to accomplish ?
> Have a certain processes which doesn't genereate their own PID's,so 
> wrote a little wrapper around them,no problem.The problem is how to 
> configure monit to execute external shell script if some processes was 
> restarted let's say 5 times in 2 cycles or so ? I don't want the alerts 
> to be spam each time the process is restarted,but if there was N times 
> in M cycles,execute some external script which should send me process's 
> log file with explanation of restart reason ?

You can use the timestamp test on the pidfile which was created by your 
wrapper on precess startup/restart:

--8<--
  check file myprocpid with path /var/run/myproc.pid
    if changed timestamp 2 times within 5 cycles then exec '...'
--8<--


> Second ones,is there a possibility to configure multiply mail formats 
> for different process checks or something similar ? process-N send mail 
> format-N or ? Or maybe different mail layout for different service tests ?

Yes, you can set the format per recipient (monit also provides macros 
for mail format which are expanded to the actual values):

http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/manual.php#setting_a_local_alert_statement

Example:
--8<--
  check process proc1 with pidfile /var/run/proc1.pid
    alert address@hidden with mail-format { subject: HELO }

  check process proc2 with pidfile /var/run/proc2.pid
    alert address@hidden with mail-format { subject: EHLO }
--8<--

Martin