Re: [EJH Pollard <address@hidden>] monit + package management systems

[Rory Toma]

Am I missing something, or does this sort of defeat the purpose of
checksum checking? If it recalculates it, then something can change it
and it will happily restart. I don't think this is something we should
be doing.

It seems to me that if you're updating pkgs that you care about you
should probably restart monit. Optionally, (I don't know if this works)
use the expect statement, and update the monitrc file with the new
checksum.

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 06:16, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> 
> This seems like a good idea. Any thoughts?
> 
> ----
> 

> From: EJH Pollard <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: monit + package management systems
> Date: 07 Aug 2002 12:31:36 +0100
> 
> hello,
> 
> I've been evaluating your monit daemon for use on my servers. it seems
> to be a very good package, though I was unsure about one thing - the
> interaction between monit's checksum facility and the inevitable updates
> to daemons by package management systems (used by systems such as the
> debian and red hat distributions).
> 
> at the moment I have a script that notifies me when updates are
> available, another which performs a "dry run" installation (i.e.
> simulates installation) and a third which downloads the new packages,
> checks their (GPG signed) md5 checksums and installs them (or not).
> ideally I'd like to add another line to this last script:
> 
> monit recalculate checksums all restart all
> 
> ...or something like that. I've had a good trawl through the online
> documentation and I can't tell if thie behaviour is currently supported.
> clearly I could simulate it with an external script, but that's a bit
> hacky! clues, directions, etc. would be much appreciated.
> 
> yours,
> 
> etienne
> 
>  [ EJH Pollard - ISE Fourth Year - Imperial College, London, UK ]
>  [ address@hidden -- 07715 747874 -- www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ejhp98/ ]
>  [ See also: http://union.ic.ac.uk/ -- http://edgarpollard.com/ ]
> 
> ----
> 

> 
> 
> -- 
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland
-- 
Rory Toma               address@hidden
VP of Run Level 5       http://www.trs80.net
Digeo Digital           http://www.digeo.com

signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part