Re: Execution failed ?

[Sorin S.]

Hi,
Are you running sendmail or postfix or other MTA?
Monit seems to be needing a MTA running. 
Would be good to use some existing libs in order to be
independend of a MTA I think, but for the moment this
is not the case.
Cheers,
Sorin

--- Andreas Rust <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just migrated a postgresql DB to a new server and
> wonder about something ...
> 
> Server is running Monit 4.4-beta5 and before I
> started to mess with 
> postgres I hit the disable monitoring button on the
> webinterface.
> When I was done with my testing and everything, I
> hit the enable monitoring 
> button and got the message "execution failed" in
> shiny red letters.
> 
> Ofcourse postgres was up and running when I
> re-enabled monitoring, so I 
> wonder where this comes from.
> 
> Here some relevant stuff:
> 
> config part:
> 
> check process postgres with pidfile
> /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid
>      start program = "/etc/init.d/postgresql start"
>      stop program = "/etc/init.d/postgresql stop"
>      group server
>      if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 5432 then restart
>      if cpu > 70% for 5 cycles then restart
>      if 7 restarts within 10 cycles then timeout
> 
> (is this more or less ok ? I think so ... )
> 
> And here the excerpt from the log:
> (ignore the mailserver stuff ... no mailserver
> available there currently :) )
> 
> 
> [CEST Oct 12 18:36:17] 'postgres' process is not
> running
> [CEST Oct 12 18:36:17] Cannot open a connection to
> the mailserver 
> 'localhost:25' -- Transport endpoint is not
> connected
> [CEST Oct 12 18:36:17] No mail servers are
> available, aborting alert
> [CEST Oct 12 18:36:17] 'postgres' trying to restart
> [CEST Oct 12 18:36:17] 'postgres' start:
> /etc/init.d/postgresql
> [CEST Oct 12 18:37:17] 'postgres' failed to start
> 
> ---- doesnt really matter until here ...
> 
> [CEST Oct 12 18:37:17] Cannot open a connection to
> the mailserver 
> 'localhost:25' -- Transport endpoint is not
> connected
> [CEST Oct 12 18:37:17] No mail servers are
> available, aborting alert
> 
> Somewhere around this time (18:36) I disabled the
> monitoring --- nothing 
> dramatic or suspicious until here.
> 
> [CEST Oct 12 20:20:46] 'postgres' process is running
> with pid 21064
> [CEST Oct 12 20:20:46] Cannot open a connection to
> the mailserver 
> 'localhost:25' -- Transport endpoint is not
> connected
> [CEST Oct 12 20:20:46] No mail servers are
> available, aborting alert
> 
> I re-enabled the monitoring at 20:20.
> Monit sees the running process ... it is not
> supposed to notify me on the 
> enabling of monitoring, or ?
> After initializing it comes up with the red
> "execution failed" message --- 
> which MAY come from the mailserver ?
> 
> [CEST Oct 12 20:27:31] 'postgres' stop:
> /etc/init.d/postgresql
> [CEST Oct 12 20:27:34] 'postgres' stopped
> [CEST Oct 12 20:27:34] Cannot open a connection to
> the mailserver 
> 'localhost:25' -- Transport endpoint is not
> connected
> [CEST Oct 12 20:27:34] No mail servers are
> available, aborting alert
> [CEST Oct 12 20:27:37] 'postgres' start:
> /etc/init.d/postgresql
> 
> This stop/start I made over the webinterface aswell
> and afterwards all was 
> fine ...
> 
> ... so, whats the message the execution failed shall
> give me ?
> postgres was up and running fine, the message
> however irritates me and I 
> wonder if it makes sense at all in this case.
> 
> l8r
> 
> 
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