Re: [monit] monit to monitor fail2ban

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

the service name "fail2ban" is just descriptive name - it doesn't need  
to match the process' name. Important is the pidfile content - monit  
reads from it PID of the process to be monitored => in your case the  
file "/var/run/fail2ban.pid" should contain 20099

Martin


On Jun 16, 2009, at 12:33 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi list,
> i'm trying to keep fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org/) monitored on my
> Centos5.2 server.
>
> i've tried using a config like this:
>
> check process fail2ban with pidfile /var/run/fail2ban.pid
>   start program = "/etc/init.d/fail2ban start"
>   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/fail2ban stop"
>   if failed unixsocket /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock then restart
>   if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
>
>
> the problem i'm having is that there is no process called "fail2ban"  
> to
> monitor. the process that fail2ban starts up under looks like this:
>
> ps ax | grep fail2ban
> 20099 ?        Sl     0:31 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/fail2ban-server -b
> -s /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock -x
>
> Do someone have an idea how on how to make it working?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrea
>
>
>
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