Re: [monit] Monit 5.1.1 not starting after upgrade (syntax rule changes?)

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Martin Pala (Tue, 11 May 2010 21:28:11 +0200)
> 
> the limitation is related to service name - it has to be unique ... in
> your case it is "windows2003r2", "windows2008r2" and "windowsxp" which
> is OK. The address part (in your case "nts-firewall1") can be used
> multiple times without problems.

Okay, so my assumption regarding the cause was wrong.
 
> The error message which you see reports service name conflict but
> shows port value - it seems that the configuration file contains some
> errors which confused the parser.

"Errors": monit 5.0.3 parser doesn't have any problem with the file.

> I tried to replicate the problem with configuration snip which you
> attache - everything works fine. Please can you send the configuration
> file? You can obfuscate credentials, IP addresses and anything what
> you don't want to disclose or even minimize the configuration as long
> as the problem is possible to replicate.

I will send the whole file unobfuscated to your email address.
 
> Was the monit 5.1.1 from some gentoo port or original source
> distribution taken from www.mmonit.com? (the gentoo port may contain
> some 3rd party patches which may change the behavior)

The gentoo port.
 
> Is your configuration file in windows CRLF format or unix LF format?
> Monit should accept both formats ... you can check for example using
> 'od -c monitrc'

UNIX format.

Thorsten