[Announce] Monit 5.7

New: Support for arguments added to 'check program'.

Arguments are whitespace separated strings. For instance:

check program list-files with path "/bin/ls -l -r -t /tmp"

if status != 0 then alert

New: Added restart as an optional service action. When Monit

is called to restart a service, it previously called the stop

program registered with the service and then the start program.

Now, if a restart program is registred with the service, this

will be called instead, otherwise Monit falls back to its old

behaviour. Example:

check process apache with pidfile /var/run/httpd.pid

start = "/usr/sbin/apachectl start"

stop = "/usr/sbin/apachectl stop"

restart = "/usr/sbin/apachectl restart" <- New

New: Use mysql 4.1 protocol in MySQL check, required for checking

mysql-proxy. Thanks to Philippe Kueck

New: Skip connection checks during startup timeout.

Philippe Kueck

New: Improved communication with M/Monit. Thanks to Hippo Lin. For

scalability purpose, this Monit version should only be used with

M/Monit version 3.1 or later.

Fixed: A problem where Monit stopped if an error occurred during MTA

connection close.

Fixed: Make the Memcache protocol test faster.

Fixed: Solaris zone: fix system memory usage report.

Fixed: Use select chiper list with SSL server instead of relying on default