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Kalarani
Kalarani

Reputation: 407

Monit fails to execute the complete command in start program

I'm using monit 5.4 on Mac 10.7.4 machine. When i tried to execute a example configuration 

check process syslogd with pidfile /var/run/syslogd.pid
   start program = "/etc/init.d/sysklogd start"
   stop program = "/etc/init.d/sysklogd stop"
   if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

from monit wiki page, I get the following error.

'syslogd' process is not running
'syslogd' trying to restart
'syslogd' start: /etc/init.d/sysklogd
'syslogd' failed to start

Monit does not take the complete command given in the "start program" of the monitrc file. It just takes the first word in the command and tries to execute it and fails. Is this a known issue? If yes, does it have a workaround? If not, what am i missing here and how to get it working?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2900

Answers (2)

Xiao
Xiao

Reputation: 108

Try this (from http://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/FAQ#execution)

start program = "/bin/bash -c '/etc/init.d/blah start'"

Upvotes: 1

Nic Cottrell
Nic Cottrell

Reputation: 9685

Does /etc/init.d/sysklogd actually exist?

On 10.8 I have /etc/init.d/syslog and manually running /etc/init.d/syslog restart works fine.

Upvotes: 0

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