Re: cycles bug ?

[Martin Pala]

Hello Stefan,

there is already an issue created for this problem (the "every" statement make 
the "cycles" option confusing): 
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/issues/174/the-for-x-cycles-is-confusing-if-the-test

Regards,
Martin


> On 15 Dec 2015, at 18:28, stefanx <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> until today I thought one cycle is always equal to the number of seconds in 
> the "set daemon"
> config options. But this is definitely not the case (Monit 5.6, Ubuntu 14.04, 
> a lot of tests),
> here an example:
> 
> set daemon 300
> set alert address@hidden not on { instance,action } with reminder on 288 
> cycles
> ...
> check file test with path "/tmp/testfile" every 20 cycles
>      if timestamp > 1 days then alert
>      alert address@hidden only on { timestamp }
>      with mail-format {
>      from: address@hidden
>      subject: test
>      message: test
> } with reminder on 288 cycles
> 
> In the first occurrence of "288 cycles", 1 cycle = 300 s, so the reminder 
> will be send one time every day
> (288 x 300 = 86400 seconds = 1 day). But in the second occurrence of "288 
> cycles", 1 cycle = 20x300 = 6000s,
> so the alert will be send on every 20th day (20 x 300 x 288s).
> 
> Is this a bug ?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
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