Re: Agents Constantly Reporting Start Events

[Kevin Chadwick]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:26:55 +0200
Martin Pala wrote:

> The event queue stores the event in the case that the delivery to mmonit or 
> SMTP server failed ... the delivery is retried next cycle and the event is 
> removed as soon as the delivery succeeded. 

except they aren't removed automatically atleast for me with just local
monit and OpenBSD. I think it works fine with version 4? It's not a big
issue for me anyway, I just disabled eventqueue.

Chris, does it reoccur if you trigger the same event and what version
were you using?



Begin forwarded message:

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:07:13 +0000
From: Kevin Chadwick <>
To: monit dash general@
Subject: eventqueue possible loop or files not cleared


This happens with 5.2.3 and 5.2.5.

With eventqueue enabled and a host check on OpenBSD, I haven't tested
others, sorry. I would end up (only after triggered and from then on)
with loads of messages of "connection failed box1" with the same time in
the message body (i.e. failure was a quick test by me) with the
difference between deliveries being "set daemon time".

Should the files created in the eventqueue basedir be cleared up or
why is it sending the same stale alert on every check?