Re: [monit] Monit False Positives

[Martin Pala]

It could be good to run monit with -v option (verbose) and check output.

Can you provide also output of following commands?:

stat /etc
stat /etc/config.conf

Thanks,
Martin


On Jul 10, 2008, at 2:41 AM, Art Age Software wrote:

> I've been seeing a lot of false positives coming out of monit.
> Generally, they come as a pair of  Checksum failed/Permission failed
> for a file, which other files have a dependency on. So, a chain of
> unmonitor actions occurs as a result. But when I check the file, the
> permissions are just fine.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> Description: 'config_conf' checksum test failed for /etc/config.conf
> Description: 'config_conf' permission test failed for /etc/config.conf
> -- current permission is 0000
>
> # ls -l /etc/config.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 862 Jul  9 23:40 /etc/config.conf
>
> Does anybody know why monit would report the permissions are "0000"
> when they are clearly 644?
>
> Running monit version 4.10.1
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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