Re: Re: Auto-reload of configuration files

[Eric Montellese]

Sorry for the delayed reply, and thank you for the responses. 

In my case, I had been running monit as a non-root user for testing.  I'll try it out again as root when we come back around to it.

Thanks, and best regards

Eric

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:12 AM Robert Ehrenleitner <rexkogitans@gmx.at> wrote:

To add to @Lutz' response to make it somewhat more clear:

 

What user is the process running with? "monit reload" must be executed with the same user, usually root. So, it is necessary to do "sudo monit reload" if you are not already root.

 

Kind regards,

rexkogitans

 

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2020 um 22:37 Uhr
Von: "Lutz Mader" <lutz.mader@freenet.de>
An: "This is the general mailing list for monit" <monit-general@nongnu.org>
Betreff: Re: Auto-reload of configuration files

Hello Eric,
are you using the command to reload in the same user context you used to
start monit.

> I didn't have luck calling 'monit reload' from within monit.

All the time I try to reload the configuration from a different user, I
get an error message (I use MacOS).

Reinitializing monit daemon
Cannot signal the monit daemon process -- Operation not permitted

With regards,
Lutz