/etc/monitrc Ownership issues

[Stephen Butler]

Hi all,

Here's a sample of a /etc/monitrc config file of mine.

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set daemon  10 # check services at 10 second intervals

set logfile syslog facility log_daemon

set httpd port 2812 and

  use address 10.1.1.150  # only accept connection from localhost

  allow 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0        # allow localhost to connect to the server and

  allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'

check process smbd with pidfile /var/run/smbd.pid

 start program = "/usr/local/etc/init.d/samba start"

 stop program = "/usr/local/etc/init.d/samba stop"

check process sshd with pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid

 start program = "/usr/local/etc/init.d/openssh start"

 stop program = "/usr/local/etc/init.d/openssh stop"

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If I start monit with this file, i get the following errors.

/etc/monitrc:11: Warning: Program is not executable: '/usr/local/etc/init.d/samba'

/etc/monitrc:12: Warning: Program is not executable: '/usr/local/etc/init.d/samba'

So I had a look and the /usr/local/etc/init.d/samba file has ownership root.root

And the /usr/local/etc/init.d/samba file has permissions of -rwxr-xr--

my /etc/monitrc file has ownership tc.staff

and I run monit as my standard tc user.

I get around this by running 'sudo monit' to start monit and no more problems.

I guess I could change permissions of the /usr/local/etc/init.d/samba, or change its ownership to root.staff

I would really appreciate some advice on the best way to go forward with this.

Thanks,

Stephen.