Re: newbie: getting monit to watch for a pattern in logfile

[Martin Pala]

Default control file for Monit is "monitrc" and that is what the official 
documentation refers to. Some 3rd party distributions customize the file name 
and/or location, which is perfectly fine, but we don't held any responsibility 
for such changes => just use the configuration file which your Monit package 
provides, or use the official source code/binary, for which the manual is 
written.

You can find description of the content test here: 
http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#file_content_testing

Martin



On 05 Apr 2014, at 21:44, Anthony Griffiths <address@hidden> wrote:

> as a newbie to monit I'm having difficulty understanding how I get monit to 
> watch for a particular text string (pattern?) in a logfile and then run a 
> script when it finds it.
> The manual page seems out of date and doesn't really correspond with the 
> monit I've got.
> I'm running a centos 6.5 server 64 bit and I installed monit via yum and 
> ended up with monit-5.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64, there is no monitrc file however 
> there is a monit.conf file which appears to be the control file.
> I did check the examples and FAQ's and such in the wiki but I couldn't find 
> how to do what I wanted. Thanks for any help.
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