Re: [monit] Executing external script with monit

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Monit purges the environment and only sets a spartan PATH when it  
execute a script/program. The program therefor, most likely are  
missing some environment variables when executed from monit, which you  
have available when run manually. See also this thread from two days  
back,

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monit-general/2008-01/msg00035.html

On 23. jan.. 2008, at 12.33, Arturo Díaz Almagro wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am using 'monit' to test a mysql port to detect possible failures  
> and exec an script when the failure happens. The script runs  
> properly except the invocation of the command snmptrap (it also  
> occurred with nsupdate command), so the trap to inform is not sent.
>
> If I run the script manually it sends the trap properly. I gave the  
> script SUID permissions just in case it is the problem, but nothing  
> to do... does anybody know why this happens?
>
> Thanks.
>
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