Use Monit for Squid, OpenVPN etc

[Pfirepfox]

Hi all,

I am having some difficulty setting up Monit to restart my services when/if the crash. So far the standard Monit configuration is working but any time i tried to add a services to be monitored it give me an error about my syntax.

My Service Test is this:
Name: Squid
Condition: check process squid with pidfile /var/run/squid/squid.pid
Action: Restart

My Service is this:
Name: squid
Type: Process
PID File: /var/run/squid/squid.pid
Start: /usr/local/sbin/configctl squid start
Stop: /usr/local/sbin/configctl squid stop
Tests: Squid (from above setup)

Each time i try to enable this the error is "/usr/local/etc/monitrc:33: syntax error 'check process '"
I am not too sure how i am using the incorrect syntax of the "Process" command but if someone could correct me that would be awesome.

[cmdr.adama]

Did some digging... If you look in the /usr/local/etc/monitrc file with what you have, you'll find

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check process squid pidfile /var/run/squid/squid.pid
   start program = "/usr/local/sbin/configctl squid start"
   stop program = "/usr/local/sbin/configctl squid stop"
   if check process squid pidfile /var/run/squid/squid.pid then restart
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Change the condition to something like "does not exist"

which would then change the monitrc file to

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check process squid pidfile /var/run/squid/squid.pid
   start program = "/usr/local/sbin/configctl squid start"
   stop program = "/usr/local/sbin/configctl squid stop"
   if does not exist then restart
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[Pfirepfox]

Now resolved using the following config. can be used for multiple services.

My Service Test is this:
Name: Squid
Condition: does not exist
Action: start

My Service is this:
Name: squid
Type: Process
PID File: /var/run/squid/squid.pid
Start: /usr/sbin/service squid start
Stop: /usr/sbin/service squid stop
Tests: Squid (from above setup)