Re: MMonit stop error

Jan-Henrik Haukeland <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:36:02 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.monitoring.monit.general
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> On 24 Sep 2020, at 18:38, Guillaume François <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to stop MMonit (the collector app) using command shown in the documentation but I'm always hitting an error:
> 
> mmonit@myhost:~$ /usr/share/mmonit/bin/mmonit -d stop
> AssertException: Cannot stop the mmonit process (1) -- Operation not permitted
>  raised in OS_finalize at src/system/OS.c:209
> Aborted
> 
> with mmonit start as user "mmonit" with command from another console (in fact System.D):
> 
> mmonit@myhost:~$ /usr/share/mmonit/mmonit/bin/mmonit -i
> 
> Best regards.

Ah that is a bug. As a workaround until we release a patch, use this command to kill mmonit:

kill -SIGTERM $(cat /usr/share/mmonit/mmonit/logs/mmonit.pid)

Hauk