[mythtv-users] Trouble with monit

[Harry Devine]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 11/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> Nick Morrott wrote:
>>  > On 11/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> Nick Morrott wrote:
>>  >>  > On 10/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >> I restarted the backend
>>  >>  >>  fine, but the monit process won't start.  I start it and it says it
>>  >>  >>  started, but when I immediately check it with "service monit status" it
>>  >>  >>  says it's dead with subsys locked.
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > This is usually due to a service's stale pidfile which was left behind
>>  >>  > when the process aborted. Check /var/run/ for monit's pidfile, delete
>>  >>  > it, and then restart the monit service.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >
>>  >>
>>  >> I looked but there's no pidfile (I looked for monit.pid).  It still says
>>  >>  "monit dead but subsys locked" after I start it and check its status.
>>  >>  Could it be under another pidfile name?
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Check for (and delete) /var/lock/subsys/monit.
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>> No good.  I found it, deleted it, and as soon as I start the service, it
>>  immediately dies.  Maybe I have to re-install it?  It just won't run at
>>  all for some reason.
>>     
>
> That should mean there are no problems with stale pid/lock files, and
> that the cause is more likely monit aborting at startup to a
> missing/bad config file.
>
> Have you updated the /etc/rc.d/init.d/monit file to use your local
> config file, rather than a default (such as /etc/monit.conf on a FC7
> box I just checked) set in that file? It could simply be that the
> config file is empty, resulting in monit aborting.
>
>   
That was it.  My /etc/rc.d/init.d/monit file was set to use 
/etc/monit.conf as its config file, but everything in that file was 
commented out.  I read the monit docs when I installed it and it said 
that it would look at ~/.monitrc if the monit.conf file wasn't there.  I 
had my myth specific settings in .monitrc so I thought it would be OK 
(and it was for a little bit).  Anyway, I modified the monit service 
script to use /root/.monitrc and it started fine now.

Thanks for all the help, Nick!
Harry