Re: File size check and exec problems

[Christian Hopp]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Andy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm being driven insane by a problem with using exec after a file size check. 
> I have the following entry in my /etc/monitrc:
>
> check file asterisk_debug with path /var/log/asterisk/debug
>      if size > 1 GB then
>       exec "/usr/sbin/asteriskrotate"
>
>  I've also tried using
>
>                exec "/bin/bash -c '/usr/sbin/asteriskrotate'"
>

(...)

> address@hidden root]# monit -vvvv reload
> monit: Debug: Adding credentials for user 'andy'.
> AssertException: at p.y:1897
> aborting..
> Aborted
>
>
> If I simply change the exec "/usr/sbin/asteriskrotate" to alert monit is 
> happy (but I'm not :P )
>
> am I being dumb and missing the obvious?

Nope, its a bug.  I just fixed in the current CVS version.  Thanks for the
bug-report!

Christian

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