Re: Token File?

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On Aug 27, 2004, at 15:59, Kevin Sheen wrote:

>  I see the following in the Example configuration:
>
> Hint: It is advisable to use a token file for monit. Thus, it is 
> easily possible to filter out the accesses done by monit.
> *
>  Is there any documentation (or an example) of the above token file.  
> I'd like to keep my apache log file from being 'disturbed' by monit if 
> possible.

This is nothing fancy, the idea here is simply to setup monit to query 
for a certain document path so you can filter out the requests done by 
monit from the http access log. The content of the "token" file is not 
important, it may be an empty file for that matter. What's important is 
that monit always query a certain document path. Assume monit check the 
following URL, /monit.txt, where monit.txt can be any text file. To 
clear the log from all monit requests you can simply do something like 
this: egrep -v /monit.txt /var/logs/access-log > 
access-log-withoutmonit

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland