Re: re-installing monit

[Alfredo Deza]

On 9/6/07, Scott Silva <address@hidden> wrote:

Alfredo Deza spake the following on 9/6/2007 11:51 AM:
>
>
> On 9/6/07, *Scott Silva* <address@hidden
> <mailto: address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Alfredo Deza spake the following on 9/6/2007 10:41 AM:
>      >
>      >
>      >      >     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.
>      >
>      >
>     The easiest solution would be to get the admin of the mail server to
>     allow
>     your monit box to send mail unauthenticated, or let you send on a
>     different
>     port like the submission port.
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> Ok, I will try that. Thanks.
>
> What about the best way to re-install / uninstall monit?
>
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> Alfredo Deza
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I think your problem was from going from rpm to source to install a program.
rpm based systems get confused when you do that. The replace files option will
let the rpm version overwrite the newer files.

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What is exactly the difference between the --replacefiles and -Fvh in this case?

I guess this would be a little bit OFF TOPIC

:)

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Alfredo Deza