Re: monit suddenly won't start

[Mike Pepe]

Martin Pala wrote:
> ... what monit version is used? Can you send the configuration files?
>
> Martin

Hi Martin, it's 4.7, and the config file looks like this:

(comments removed for clarity)

> set daemon 60
> set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
> set mailserver mail.doki-doki.net, localhost
> set httpd port 6502 and
>      allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
>      allow home.doki-doki.net
>      allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'
> check system quadzilla.doki-doki.net
>     if loadavg (1min) > 8 then alert
>     if loadavg (5min) > 4 then alert
> include /etc/monit.d/*

in monit.d I put all the services as separate entries, as in this sample

> 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 ran before I took out the lockfile check and dependencies, now I get 
those syntax errors

> /etc/monit.d/dovecot:1: Error: syntax error 'process'