re-installing monit

[Alfredo Deza]

>     Wow, what a mess I just made.
>
>     I installed the RPM package from Dag Wieers repository. I am using
>     CentOS 4.1 and everything was fine. So to install the BETA version I
>     removed Dag's package by doing:
>
>     rpm -e monit
>
>     Which uninstalled monit.
>
>     Then I did a wget of the source ( 4.10 beta) , compiled and
>     installed. But it seems monit wasnt working well, it didnt have a
>     pid file and couldnt recognize the services.I couldnt even do
>     /etc/init.d/monit start
>
>     So I went ahead to uninstall monit and within the 4.10 directory did:
>
>     make uninstall
>
>     Perfect.
>
>     Went ahead and reinstalled the RPM package and now I have my monit
>     pid file but with a broken monit:
>
>     -bash: /usr/local/bin/monit/: no such file or directory
>
>     I still have the configuration file and I can do:
>
>     /etc/init.d/monit start
>     /etc/init.d/monit restart
>     /etc/init.d/monit stop
>
>     But it does nothing, no web interface, no nothing.
>
>     Could you guys PLEASE help me get this working again? I just need to
>     have this as stable as possible (why did I tried to get 4.10???).
>
>     So, to make this plea short:
>
>     1.- Need to get a complete uninstall/removal of monit
>     2.- Then a fresh install of monit 4.9 with the RPM package
>
>     Hopefully I will have this working in no time.
>
>     Thanks again so much for your patience and help,
>
>
>     --
>     Alfredo Deza
>
>
> Ok, just an update (sorry for the spam)
>
> Since bash couldnt find monit I did wget monit-4.9 compiled it and
> copied monit to /usr/local/bin/monit/
>
> So that fixed that problem and now I have monit running.
>
> BUT
>
> Monit doesnt start/stop/restart correctly (although I see OK when I try)
> when doing /etc/init.d/
>
> It just starts by:
>
> monit -v
>
> And it shows that monit doesnt have a PID file at /var/run/monit.pid
>
> Any ideas to this whole mess I created?
>
Did you try rpm with the --replacefiles option?


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Early today I tried the rpm --replacefiles and it seems to be working.

I can start monit with init.d

There should be a thorough guide as to how to upgrade / downgrade or uninstall monit, not because we dont want it, but just for situations like this.

I offer my time if someone is willing to help me out, as my process hasnt been clean at all.

Because this is an important server, I think its better to wait for the email verification option in 4.10 unless someone comes with a good solution for not being able to send email notifications.


Thanks a lot to everybody.


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Alfredo Deza