Re: file changed timestamp

[Nick Upson]

Hi,

Access: 2012-01-16 23:55:16.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2012-01-16 23:55:16.000000000 +0000
Change: 2012-01-18 09:45:01.000000000 +0000

That's it then, the ctime is changing, which is wierd because there is no change to the file itself. I need another way to be alerted when the file changes, MD5sum perhaps

Nick Upson

On 17 January 2012 21:49, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

can you get the "stat" output for that file? Monit tests the mtime (content modification time) and ctime (inode modification time - owner, permission, etc.), the event is generated if one of them changed. The "ls" won't display ctime by default, to display the ctime with ls, you can use: "ls -lc"

Regards,
Martin

On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Nick Upson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I continue to get alerts from the config entry below even when the file hasn't changed, it doesn't happen every cycle either.
> The log extract below it changing yet the file hasn't changed since 16:14
>
> check file firebirdlog with path /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> if changed timestamp then alert
>
> [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] debug    : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded
> [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] debug    : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file
> [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] error    : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug    : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded
> [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug    : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file
> [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug    : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] info     : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] debug    : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded
> [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] debug    : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file
> [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] error    : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug    : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded
> [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug    : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file
> [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug    : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] info     : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] debug    : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded
> [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] debug    : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file
> [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] error    : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug    : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded
> [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug    : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file
> [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug    : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] info     : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
> [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] debug    : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded
> [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] debug    : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file
> [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] error    : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
>
> Nick Upson
>

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