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Re: Not able to disable default alert


From: Sidra Khan
Subject: Re: Not able to disable default alert
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:40:50 -0700

Hi,

Sorry for bothering you but how do i unregister from this mailing list?

Thanks,
Sid

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:36 +0200, Martin Pala wrote:
> The alert action is implicit - even if you set the exec action, you will 
>   get the alert as well.
> 
> If you want to disable the alert, then set the alert filter this way:
> 
> --8<--
>     alert address@hidden but not on { change }
> --8<--
> 
> (see manual for more details)
> 
> Martin
> 
> David Anderson wrote:
> > The monit manual says that I can disable the implicit pid-change alert. 
> > I want to do this for clamav, as this is restarted regularly by a cron 
> > job (because it is a memory hog - restarting it releases memory).
> > 
> > I have this in my monit configuration:
> > 
> > 
> > check process clamd with pidfile /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid
> >    group virus
> >    start program = "/etc/init.d/clamd start"
> >    stop  program = "/etc/init.d/clamd stop"
> >    if changed pid then exec "/bin/true"
> >    if failed unixsocket /var/clamav/clamd.sock for 2 cycles then restart
> >    if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
> > 
> > 
> > The crucial line being the one with 'exec "/bin/true"'.
> > 
> > However, it appears to have no effect - I still get e-mail alerts when 
> > monit detects that the PID has changed. What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks for your time,
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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