Re: Monit environment PATH

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On Apr 18, 2005, at 19:15, Yiwen Jiang wrote:

> Is there any reason why monit will not use the PATH variable defined 
> in the
> shell environment for superuser?

This is for security reasons. The same is the case for many system 
tools such as e.g. crontab

> Does any one have any suggestions on how to get around this, so that 
> monit
> can take the environment PATH variable from the shell instead?

It's probably debatable but you can, at the top of the script source in 
.bashrc or the resource that sets the PATH on localhost.

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