Re: Can I use dollar sign in paths in monit config file?

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 21. jun. 2007, at 07.53, Sergio Trejo wrote:

> I was wondering why it is illegal (according to monit when I run it  
> on the command line with the -t (syntax check) option) to preface a  
> path with $HOME, such as:
>
> set logfile $HOME/monit/my.log
>
> I guess monit doesn't parse $HOME and expand shell variables such  
> as $HOME?

No monit does not expand shell variables in monitrc and as a reminder  
does not allow $ in path names. Looks to me, a useful feature to add  
or did we have this discussion before? I seem to recall we discussed  
this and decided against.

> Any suggestions or work arounds?

Instead of $HOME/monit/my.log write for instance /home/sergtrejo/ 
monit/my.log :-)

If you absolutely must use shell variables, preprocess monitrc for  
instance using something like

perl -pi -e 's,\$HOME,'$HOME',' .monitrc


Jan-Henrik