Re: Monitoring /dev/log?

[Martin Pala]

It is most probably DGRAM socket (the default for unixsocket test is STREAM), 
you can try this:

if failed unixsocket /dev/log type udp then restart



On Jul 18, 2011, at 10:07 AM, mad wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot to mention, I already tried that. The result is
> 
> 'rsyslog' failed, cannot open a connection to UNIX[/dev/log]
> 
> Regards,
> mad
> 
> Am 18.07.2011 09:38, schrieb 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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