Re: resources about monit

[Martin Pala]

Christian Hopp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> some possible additions for Ballyhoo,
>
> A nice interview with Hauk, I didn't know that you speak that well
> Czech (-:
>  http://www.linuxzone.cz/index.phtml?ids=10&idc=378
It is Slovak language (the federation with Czech republic was broken in 
1993) - it is different, but it is easily possible to understand if you 
know Czech ;)

> Thats where we find the OpenBSD 'port' of monit,
>  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/monit/
It will be nice if some OpenBSD developer will join us.

> A nice german article in the "central information service" of the
> University of Innsbruck, Austria,
>  http://www2.uibk.ac.at/zid/software/unix/linux/monit.html
Interesting. They warned about syntax:

...
monit stop [progname]

*Achtung - wird |[progname]| weggelassen, werden ALLE von monit 
überwachten Dienste angehalten!!!*
...

I think Christian addressed it in the passed and we decided not to 
secure it. I think we maybe shall discuss it again - if the user makes 
"automatically" SYSV style "monit stop" to quit monit (which is wrong 
way to do it), he will stop all monitored services which is unlikely. It 
is very easy to make a mistake even though you are "skilled" monit user.

It is true that it isn't very good to try to be smarter then the user 
and make unnecessary "red tapes" (once you have superuser rigths and 
command line, nothing is secured any more ;) but maybe in this case it 
will be better to secure it because of catastrophal consequences of it 
in the case of carelessness.

I think Christian proposed to change it to:

monit (start|stop} {all|programme}

where "all" tag is defined in the case you need to start/stop all programs.

What about it?

Martin