Re: Installation Issues

[Martin Pala]

you can just copy the resulting 'monit' binary to any location where you 
want it + copy the sample 'monitrc' config file to any of these locations:

either ~/.monitrc
or /etc/monitrc
or /usr/local/etc/monitrc

(the monitrc permission mode should be 0600)

Martin



Russell Cook wrote:
> I'm receiving the following error when trying to do the final 'make' 
> command for install:
>
> [/usr/local/monit-4.8.2]$ make install
> /usr/bin/install -c  -m 755 -d /usr/local/bin || exit 1
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change permissions of `/usr/local/bin': 
> Operation not permitted
> make: *** [install] Error 1
>
>
> I'm not quite sure why /usr/local/bin needs to have 755 permissions but 
> my system doesn't seem to  allow me to change that even though I'm 
> logged in as root. Is there a way around it? I would appreciate any help 
> with figuring out how to get monit successfully install. Thanks!
>
> Russell
>
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