Re: check program <unique-name> with path "/path/to/my/script.sh" does not work

[Martin Pala]

Hello,

the "check program" requires monit 5.3 or newer - the 4.10.1 won't recognize 
it. The configuration snip which you provided looks OK so monit 5.3+ should 
parse the configuration without problem - please can you provide full 
configuration? Was the error reported by 5.3 the same as 4.10.1? Are you sure 
you passed the configuration really to monit 5.3+ or is it possible that it was 
old binary? (you can verify the version with "monit -V").

Note that the "check program" also requires "if status" test, otherwise the 5.3 
reports the error like this:

    monit: Error: 'check program program_timeout' is incomplete; Please add an 
'if status != n' test

=> the correct configuration should look like this:

    check program program_timeout with path "/usr/bin/true"
        if status == 1 then alert


Regards,
Martin


On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:27 PM, YUM System Administration wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to setup a check with "check program" in the monit
> configuration file, just as described in the Online-Manual at
> http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#program_status_testing.
> 
> Unfortunately monit seems not to recognize the configuration directive.
> 
> When I check the modifications done to the config file with "monit -t",
> I get:
> 
> "/etc/monit/monit.d/rc.newsletter_transmitter:22: Error: syntax error
> 'unique_descriptor'"
> 
> Of course I know that "unique_descriptor" is just the examples name, but
> I guess it should work though.
> 
> The config looks like this:
> 
> check program uniq_descriptor with path "/path/to/my/script.sh"
> 
> I tried this with monit 4.10.1 from debian lenny, and with monit 5.3.1
> from the precompiled downloads. Both versions don't accept my setup.
> 
> Can someone help?
> 
> Regards,
> Hans Ulrich
> 
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