Re: [monit] monit start up script

[Scott Silva]

on 3-20-2009 11:51 AM Abdellah Tantan spake the following:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> We were trying to install monit as our Linux monitoring tool, however;
> after many reinstallation attempts we could not’t get monit to start
> from init at boot-time, matter fact these two file never do not seem to
> exist */etc/monit* and */etc/default/monit* in any of the installations.
> We tried monit 4.10 and monit 5.0 beta_7 complied packages with the same
> result.
> 
>  
> 
> We are not sure if this is related to the OS, we are using (SUSE Linux
> Enterprise Server 10 - Linux 2.6.16.60-0.34-bigsmp #1 SMP Fri Jan 16
> 14:59:01 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux).
> 
>  
> 
> These are the installation steps we followed.
> 
>  
> 
> $ tar zxvf monit-x.y.z.tar.gz (were x.y.z denotes version numbers)
> 
> $ cd monit-x.y.z
> 
> $ ./configure (use ./configure --help to view available options)
> 
> $ make && make install.
> 
>  
> 
> I am not sure if we need to pass an argument to. /configre that would
> get the desire installation.
> 
>  
> 
> To give you an idea about our installation the command
> 
> find / -name monit gives the following ouput
> 
> $/opt/monit-5.0_beta7/monit
> 
> $/var/log/monit
> 
> $/usr/local/bin/monit
> 
>  
> 
> All monit files are under $/opt/monit-5.0_beta7/
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> We also tried to install  monit-4.10.1-40.1.i586.rpm with no luck.
> 
> $ rpm -ivh monit-4.10.1-40.1.i586.rpm
> 
> $ error: Failed dependencies:
> 
> $ rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.2-1 is needed by monit-4.10.1-40.1.i586
> 
> This error is common when you tried to install rpms that are not 100%
> compatible with the OS version
> 
>  
> 
> Monit is working fine; we just want to be able to have it starts
> automatically at boot time.
> 
> Any ideas what we might be doing wrong?
> 
>  
You need a sysv init script for SUSE.
Here is a build from the open suse build servers for SLES 10
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/SLE-10-SP1/i586/monit-4.10-1.1.i586.rpm



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