Error: the executable does not exist 'su'

[Anoop kumar V]

Hi All,

I am a newbie to monit and really love the tool - very useful.

I am facing an error when I run monit. The error is below: (I am running monit as root)

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# ./monit status
/etc/monitrc:21: Error: the executable does not exist 'su'
/etc/monitrc:22: Error: the executable does not exist 'su'
/etc/monitrc:28: Error: the executable does not exist 'su'
/etc/monitrc:29: Error: the executable does not exist 'su'
/etc/monitrc:35: Error: the executable does not exist 'su'
/etc/monitrc:36: Error: the executable does not exist 'su'
/etc/monitrc:42: Error: the executable does not exist 'cd'
/etc/monitrc:43: Error: the executable does not exist 'su'

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Now what I have is a system with some scripts which are not in the init file. (They are not, need not be startup scripts)

Here is my monitrc file:
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# vi /etc/monitrc
"/etc/monitrc" 46 lines, 2159 characters 
set daemon 120                                # Poll in 2-minute intervals
set httpd port 2000
        allow admin:sumonit

check process Apache with pidfile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
   group www
   start program = "/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -f /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf -k start"
   stop  program = "/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -f /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf -k stop"
   if failed host amp.twoliter.com port 80
        protocol HTTP
        request "/index.html" then restart
   if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

check process sshd with pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid
   start program  "/usr/lib/ssh/sshd"
   if failed port 22 protocol ssh then restart
   if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

check host Remediation_Test with address 
amp.twoliter.com
        group www
        start program = "su - weblogic -c /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap2test/start"
        stop program = "su - weblogic -c /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap2test/stop"
        if failed port 7005 protocol http
                and request "/console" then alert

check host AutoProvision_Test with address amp.twoliter.com
        group www
        start program = "su - weblogic -c /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap3test/start"
        stop program = "su - weblogic -c /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap3test/stop"
        if failed port 7010 protocol http
                and request "/console" then alert

check host AutoProvision_Dev with address amp.twoliter.com
        group www
        start program = "su - weblogic -c /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap3dev/start"
        stop program = "su - weblogic -c /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap3dev/stop"
        if failed port 7020 protocol http
                and request "/console" then alert

check host Remediation_Dev with address 
amp.twoliter.com
        group www
        start program = "cd /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap2dev; su weblogic -c \"nohup /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap2dev/startWebLogic.sh &\"; cd"
        stop program = "su weblogic -c /opt/bea/user_projects/domains/cap2dev/stop"
        if failed port 7015 protocol http
                and request "/console" then alert

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What I am trying to do is this:

 Run some processes as another user (weblogic). So for that I use "su weblogic"

I am also getting errors in the line bolded above... Weblogic looks for the config.xml
 file in the current directory when it is started. Hence I am doing a cd and then running the startup script. While stopping, there is no such problem...

But it doesnt work and it gives out those errors.

Thanks,
Anoop
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Thanks and best regards,
Anoop