[mythtv-users] Trouble with monit

[Nick Morrott]

On 11/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Nick Morrott wrote:
>  > On 11/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Nick Morrott wrote:
>  >>  > On 10/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >> I restarted the backend
>  >>  >>  fine, but the monit process won't start.  I start it and it says it
>  >>  >>  started, but when I immediately check it with "service monit status" it
>  >>  >>  says it's dead with subsys locked.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >
>  >>  > This is usually due to a service's stale pidfile which was left behind
>  >>  > when the process aborted. Check /var/run/ for monit's pidfile, delete
>  >>  > it, and then restart the monit service.
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>
>  >> I looked but there's no pidfile (I looked for monit.pid).  It still says
>  >>  "monit dead but subsys locked" after I start it and check its status.
>  >>  Could it be under another pidfile name?
>  >>
>  >
>  > Check for (and delete) /var/lock/subsys/monit.
>  >
>  >
>
> No good.  I found it, deleted it, and as soon as I start the service, it
>  immediately dies.  Maybe I have to re-install it?  It just won't run at
>  all for some reason.

That should mean there are no problems with stale pid/lock files, and
that the cause is more likely monit aborting at startup to a
missing/bad config file.

Have you updated the /etc/rc.d/init.d/monit file to use your local
config file, rather than a default (such as /etc/monit.conf on a FC7
box I just checked) set in that file? It could simply be that the
config file is empty, resulting in monit aborting.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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