Re: File contains with specific word

[Jostein Berntsen]

On 22.07.11,14:32, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> On 29.06.11,07:15, AJames wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying the execute the following example to check  whenever the log
> > file will update with any error message i have to alert. I added the
> > following line in my monitrc file.
> > 
> > check file test.txt  with path /home/sample/test.txt
> >            if match
> >                 "error" then alert
> > 
> > Let me know if am wrong any where.
> 
> I was just about to post a mail regarding the same issue when I saw this. I 
> have
> the exactly same problem:
> 
> # File check test
> #
> check file word with path /home/jostein/word.txt
>  if match "Peter.*" then
>        alert
> 
> This is the message on the monit web report:
> 
> Match regex   no
> Associated regex      If If match "Peter.*" 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then 
> alert
>       
> Is there any way to resolve this? Other alerts for file directory size and RAM
> use and more is working as expected. 
> 
> This is Monit version 5.2.5
> Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Tildeslash Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
> 

And then suddenly it started working without me doing anything. A convenient way
to solve the problem, but it would be nice to know what happened earlier this
week when this did not work.

Jostein