Re: Monit $ Bash wrong exit value?

[Martin Pala]

Hello,

Monit check for exit value - not output (echo vs. exit).

Regards,
Martin



On 05 Jun 2014, at 13:45, Martin Vaner <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello all, 
> i have a one little problem. I have bash script, which look like this 
> (somebody have already seen it here).
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> errorcount=`tail -n 10 contego.log | grep "Error" | wc -l`
> if [ $errorcount -gt 0 ]; then
> echo $errorcount
> else
> echo 0
> fi
> 
> When i run the scrip from the console, and the file contego.log contains 
> "Error" word,  the output is:
> address@hidden:/mnt/vouchers# ./logtest.sh
> 10
> 
> But Monit still working with exit value 0, so it doesn't send alerts when the 
> file contains 10 Errors.
> 
> Program                                   'contego_errors'
> status                                        Status ok
> monitoring status                Monitored
> last started                             Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:28:28
> last exit value                       0
> data collected                       Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:28:28
> 
> The monit config is look like this:
> 
> check program contego_errors with path /mnt/vouchers/logtest.sh
>     if status != 0 then alert
> 
> Do you have some tips, how to get this to work? 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Martin 
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