Re: Debian: How to upgrade MONIT correctly?

[Nils Steinger]

Debian applies a bunch of patches when packaging Monit, so the
precompiled binaries from mmonit.com might not be compatible with your
existing installation (due to different default config paths for example).

The safest way to upgrade Monit on a Debian system is to use backports
from Debian's package repositories. You can either use prepackaged ones
from your release's backports suite (e.g. jessie-backports), or compile
them yourself (e.g. following [1] on your system, or using the OpenSUSE
build service [2]).

You can check https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=monit for the
versions that are currently available.

Note: You could also add a third-party apt repository that maintains
backports of a package, but then your update flow depends on yet another
entity that could introduce delays or errors, or could even make
malicious changes to the code.

Regards,
Nils

[1]: https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/
[2]: https://build.opensuse.org/

On 29.03.2016 20:37, address@hidden wrote:
> I did sudo apt-get install monit but it only installs version 5.9 and
> the current version is 5.17.1. So I did
> 
> wget
> https://mmonit.com/monit/dist/binary/5.17.1/monit-5.17.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
> 
> to download the precompiled binaries and now I have these files:
> 
> monit-5.17.1/bin/monit
> monit-5.17.1/conf/monitrc
> monit-5.17.1/man/man1/monit.1
> 
> I checked where MONIT is installed with "dpkg -S monit | sort":
> 
> monit: /etc/default/monit
> monit: /etc/init.d/monit
> monit: /etc/logrotate.d/monit
> monit: /etc/monit
> monit: /etc/monit/conf.d
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/acpid
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/apache2
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/at
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/cron
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/mdadm
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/memcached
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/mysql
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/nginx
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/openntpd
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/openssh-server
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/pdns-recursor
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/postfix
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/rsyslog
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/smartmontools
> monit: /etc/monit/monitrc.d/snmpd
> monit: /etc/monit/templates
> monit: /etc/monit/templates/rootbin
> monit: /etc/monit/templates/rootrc
> monit: /etc/monit/templates/rootstrict
> monit: /etc/pam.d/monit
> monit: /usr/bin/monit
> monit: /usr/share/bug/monit
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/changelog.Debian.gz
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/CONTRIBUTORS
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/copyright
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/examples
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/examples/monit.service
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/examples/monit.upstart
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/NEWS.Debian.gz
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/README.Debian
> monit: /usr/share/doc/monit/README.gz
> monit: /usr/share/lintian/overrides/monit
> monit: /usr/share/man/man1/monit.1.gz
> monit: /var/lib/monit
> monit: /var/lib/monit/events
> 
> I know how to handle the conf-file monitrc but I don't know in which
> paths I have to replace the file monit (only at /usr/bin/monit or
> somewhere else?) and if this the correct way to upgrade at all.
> 
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