Re: limit check file alerts

Thanks for the idea Tino. Unfortunately I don't think that will work as I'm
trying to limit the alerts sent to m/monit and I'm not sure what email
address to include on the noalert clause to do that (looks like the syntax
is "NOALERT <email adddress>".

Seems wrong that in the monit config I can say "if not exists <do something
other than alert>" and it still alerts that it doesn't exist.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 7:10 AM Tino Hendricks <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Marc,
>
> just a simple thought: Define this check with a „noalert“ statement and
> define an additional one with softer criterions (like „… for 5 cycles…“)
> which does real alerts?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Tino
>
> > Am 22.03.2019 um 22:46 schrieb Marc Rossi <[email protected]>:
> >
> > I have a process that creates a logfile named
> "/var/log/foo-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.log" at startup. To simplify things I create
> a soft-link to the latest file named "/var/log/foo.log".
> >
> > Whenever the process is restarted it deletes the soft-link (since it is
> pointing to a file that is no longer current). I have the following "check
> file" setup to re-create that soft-link and start monitoring the file. Only
> problem is it still generates a "file doesn't exist" event after 3 cycles
> before creating the soft-link and a "file exists" event.
> >
> > check file foo.log with path /var/log/foo.log
> >       if not exist for 3 cycles then exec "/bin/bash -c 'ln -s `ls -t
> /var/log/foo-*.*.log|head -n1` /var/log/foo.log'"
> >       if content != "\[INFO\]" then alert
> >       group foo
> >
> > Any ideas on how to prevent the initial "file doesn't exist" event?
> >
> > (just to eliminate one of obvious solutions. the soft link cannot be
> created from the startup script in between unmonitor/monitor commands to
> foo.log as I don't control the app startup. the foo.log entry stays
> monitored 24x7 as the soft-link is not deleted at app shutdown which keeps
> things simple)
> >
> > Marc
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