Re: Monit not running?

[Martin Pala]

Titus Cheung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have setup Monit as per the instructions on
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-and-restart-linux-unix-service.h
> tml
> and issued the "monit" command (the "init -q" command doesn't work)

Provided you added the 'mo:2345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/monit -Ic 
/etc/monitrc' line to the /etc/inittab then the 'telinit -q' tells init 
to reread its configuraton and start monit. Note that monit will be 
started *only* when the monit configuration file was set and has proper 
permissions.

> but am not sure why I can't see the log file with "tail -f /var/log/message"
> (It's not there).  I have it set as
> "set logfile syslog facility log_daemon"

You should check the configuration of your syslog daemon 
(/etc/syslog.conf) for daemon facility logfile.

> Also, can someone please explain what is
> mo:2345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/monit -Ic /etc/monitrc

Basicaly inittab provides configuration for process called 'init' (read 
inittab manual page for more details). This particular line says to init 
that it should start the given command in runlevels 2, 3, 4, 5 and in 
the case that it dies it will be restarted by init. It is kind of 
watchdog-on-watchdog.

Martin