Re: [monit] feature request, supperted devices in /dev/disk/by-*

[Martin Pala]

OK, we'll look on it ... we're working on final M/Monit-2.0 and  
Monit-5.0 release now, so it will be candidate for Monit-5.1 most  
probably.

As workaround you can use mountpoint instead of device.

Cheers,
Martin



On Feb 12, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Aleksander Kamenik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got servers which after each boot get a different drive name  
> from the /dev/sd[a-z] pool assigned.
>
> The solution to this is to use for example /dev/disk/by-uuid/ 
> 484a2f10-2f70-46b5-b235-f63d55b5ccef instead of /dev/sdX. This is  
> what is used in /etc/fstab to correctly mount the partitions.
>
> However monit does not support by-uuid giving an access error. The  
> reason for this is, I assume, that /dev/disk/by-uuid/ 
> 484a2f10-2f70-46b5-b235-f63d55b5ccef is a symlink pointing to ../../ 
> sda1 and not a real device itself.
>
> Please support symlinks as devices. Thanks!
>
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