Re: Not able to disable default alert

[Martin Pala]

The alert action is implicit - even if you set the exec action, you will 
 get the alert as well.

If you want to disable the alert, then set the alert filter this way:

--8<--
   alert address@hidden but not on { change }
--8<--

(see manual for more details)

Martin

David Anderson wrote:
> The monit manual says that I can disable the implicit pid-change alert. 
> I want to do this for clamav, as this is restarted regularly by a cron 
> job (because it is a memory hog - restarting it releases memory).
>
> I have this in my monit configuration:
>
>
> check process clamd with pidfile /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid
>    group virus
>    start program = "/etc/init.d/clamd start"
>    stop  program = "/etc/init.d/clamd stop"
>    if changed pid then exec "/bin/true"
>    if failed unixsocket /var/clamav/clamd.sock for 2 cycles then restart
>    if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
>
>
> The crucial line being the one with 'exec "/bin/true"'.
>
> However, it appears to have no effect - I still get e-mail alerts when 
> monit detects that the PID has changed. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> David