|
From: | Henning Bopp (boppy) |
Subject: | Re: Monit and VPNC |
Date: | Wed, 6 May 2020 20:15:22 +0200 |
Hi, I'm experimenting with using VPNC to make a VPN connection to a client network via their Cisco router: https://linux.die.net/man/8/vpnc
It needs to be at least somewhat reliable, so I'd like to manage it with Monit, but I'm having some challenges with getting it going. It will start and successfully establish the VPN tunnel when I start it manually, but so far I can't get it to start via Monit.Here's what I see on the Monit webmin:Process status
Parameter Value Name vpnc Pid file /var/run/vpnc.pid Status Execution failed | Does not exist Monitoring status Monitored Monitoring mode active On reboot start Start program '/home/myers/vpnc-wrapper' timeout 30 s Stop program '/home/myers/vpnc-wrapper' timeout 30 s Data collected Wed, 06 May 2020 13:42:11 Existence If doesn't exist then restart
I verified the full path to VPNC:
12$ which vpnc
/usr/sbin/vpnc
Since VPNC doesn't make a pidfile, I created a wrapper script:-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 246 May 5 18:54 vpnc-wrapper
41$ cat vpnc-wrapper
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
start)
echo $$ > /var/run/vpnc.pid;
exec 2>&1 /usr/sbin/vpnc 1>/tmp/vpnc.out
;;
stop)
kill `cat /var/run/vpnc.pid` ;;
*)
echo "usage: vpnc {start|stop}" ;;
esac
exit 0
And this is how I'm invoking it from my /etc/monitrc:check process vpnc with pidfile /var/run/vpnc.pid
start = "/home/myers/vpnc-wrapper"
stop = "/home/myers/vpnc-wrapper"
Anyone have any thoughts for where I might be going wrong here?
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |