Re: Monitoring /dev/log?

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

the /dev/log is unix socket ... you can check it along with the process itself, 
for example:

check process rsyslog with pidfile /var/run/rsyslog.pid
    start program = "/etc/init.d/rsyslog start"
    stop program = "/etc/init.d/rsyslog stop"
    if failed unixsocket /dev/log then restart

(verify the paths to pidfile and init script are correct)

Regards,
Martin



On Jul 18, 2011, at 8:47 AM, mad wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to monitor the file '/dev/log' which is created by rsyslog.
> I only want to know if it exists and if it does not exist, rsyslog
> should be restarted.
> 
> So far I have no luck with that, because /dev/log is no ordinary file.
> It may not help that I have only monit version 5.0.3.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> mad
> 
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