Wrong alert messages

[Thomas Oppel]

'n morning!

yesterday I found a misconfigured monit (release 2.5) on one of my boxes.
The start/stop init file didn't exist. (Well, forgot to rename the config's 
default.) With timeout(3,5) this lead to 4 alert messages, after I had killed 
the certain service:
- one 'Program x restarted' and after that in cycles
- three 'Program x timed out'

The first alert message I consider a bug. Obviously the existence of the 
start/stop file isn't checked, or has no effect. Furthermore a non running 
daemon is annnounced restarted, - which probably should mean up and running, 
too.
The following timeout messages are irritating.

What about something like

        if(!exist(initfile)) alert('ERROR: initfile does not exist.');

for all alerts as in this case?

Greetings,
Leppo.
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