Re: [monit] permission/checksum error on apache2

[Martin Pala]

If you're not running Monit as root, you may have no access to parent directory 
of the monitored file.

=> if you are running monit as regular user, make sure this user has access to 
/usr and /usr/sbin directories.



On May 4, 2010, at 12:20 AM, zachlac wrote:

> 
> For some reason monit fails to monitor apache2, complaining about
> checksum/permissions errors.  The permissions are 0755, owned by root.root. 
> Monit says that the permissions are 0000.  Below are the output of monit -v
> and my web display.
> 
> Runtime constants:
> Control file       = /etc/monitrc
> Log file           = /etc/monit.log
> Pid file           = /var/run/monit.pid
> Debug              = True
> Log                = True
> Use syslog         = False
> Is Daemon          = True
> Use process engine = True
> Poll time          = 120 seconds with start delay 0 seconds
> Expect buffer      = 256 bytes
> Mail server(s)     = ##################:25 with timeout 5 seconds
> Mail from          = address@hidden
> Mail subject       = monit alert --  $EVENT $SERVICE
> Mail message       = $EVENT Service $SERV..(truncated)
> Start monit httpd  = True
> httpd bind address = ##################.com
> httpd portnumber   = 2812
> httpd signature    = True
> Use ssl encryption = True
> PEM key/cert file  = /local/monit-src/monit.pem
> Client cert file   = None
> Allow self certs   = False
> httpd auth. style  = Basic Authentication and Host/Net allow list
> Alert mail to      = address@hidden
>   Alert on         = All events
> ...
> File Name             = apache_bin
> Group                = server
> Path                 = /usr/sbin/apache2
> Monitoring mode      = active
> Existence            = if doesn't exist 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then
> restart else if succeeded 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
> Checksum             = if failed eaab164420921462fb84d094fa2bd6b7(MD5) 1
> times within 1 cycle(s) then unmonitor else if succeeded 1 times within 1
> cycle(s) then alert
> Permission           = if failed 0755 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then
> unmonitor else if succeeded 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
> UID                  = if failed 0 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then unmonitor
> else if succeeded 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
> GID                  = if failed 0 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then unmonitor
> else if succeeded 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
> Alert mail to        = ############################
>   Alert on           = Checksum Gid Permission Uid
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
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