Re: monit suddenly won't start

[Martin Pala]

... what monit version is used? Can you send the configuration files?

Martin

Mike Pepe wrote:
> I edited out a couple of extraneous lines from my process monitor rc 
> files. I was checking the lockfiles to stop monitoring, but I found out 
> they didn't work- so they were removed.
>
> Now monit won't start. It gives syntax errors on everything.
>
> address@hidden monit.d]# monit -vI
> monit: Debug: Adding host allow 'localhost' (127.0.0.1).
> monit: Debug: Adding host allow 'home.doki-doki.net' (68.197.111.48).
> monit: Debug: Adding credentials for user 'admin'.
> /etc/monit.d/dovecot:1: Error: syntax error 'process'
>
> the dovecot file is:
>
> check process dovecot with pidfile /var/run/dovecot/master.pid
>    start program = "/etc/init.d/dovecot start"
>    stop  program = "/etc/init.d/dovecot stop"
>    if failed host mail.doki-doki.net port 143 type TCP protocol IMAP
>         then restart
>    if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
>
> it does this for all of them...
>
> what happened?