Re: Monit spawning script before the filesystem is updated

[Rory Toma]

On 4/15/2013 1:49 PM, FrancoisGervais wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We running monit as part of our embedded system to monitor a config file
> which is written by a 3rd application. Then when monit sees the timestamp
> change on the config file it fires a script which does the actual
> configuration.
>
> However, it seems that once in a while there's a race condition and once
> inside the script when we load the config file it hasn't been updated yet.
> It would seems that the timestamp has been updated but not the file content.
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks
> Francois

Does anything touch the file, it checks mtime and ctime, and returns the 
newest value to check?

Also, is there a possibility that your time is being set during boot, 
causing some confusion perhaps? (This does on ours, so we work around it)