Re: is monit just a pain in the arse or what ?

[Scott Silva]

andrew taylor spake the following on 7/27/2007 12:16 PM:
> alex black wrote:
>>> 1) already RTFM
>>
>> Apparently not, since I have a cluster of machines in denver which are
>> all maintenance free because of monit, and I'm running rails.
>>
>>> 2) posted my monitrc
>>
>> Only after someone who was _very_ polite didn't spank you and kindly
>> asked you to do so
>>
>>> 3) make the daemon respond or get fired
>>
>> They can fire you, you can't fire them - you didn't pay and it's their
>> mailing list.
>>
>> Really, I'm quite tolerant on mailing lists because I know people tend
>> to "read the worst" into email, but your post was disrespectful and
>> you deserve much more abuse than you got.
>>
>> Remember that in many circumstances, good suggestions (like the one
>> about clarifying the warnings for bad pid paths) can be lost if you
>> deliver them with language designed to antagonize.
>>
>> good luck,
>>
>> _alex
>>
>>
> no one has yet to explain why a running monit daemon refuses to respond
> to a "monit summary" request...
> 
> 
A firewall can block it.

-- 

MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!