Hi, can you get the "stat" output for that file? Monit tests the mtime (content modification time) and ctime (inode modification time - owner, permission, etc.), the event is generated if one of them changed. The "ls" won't display ctime by default, to display the ctime with ls, you can use: "ls -lc"
Regards, Martin On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Nick Upson wrote: > Hi, > > I continue to get alerts from the config entry below even when the file > hasn't changed, it doesn't happen every cycle either. > The log extract below it changing yet the file hasn't changed since 16:14 > > check file firebirdlog with path /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > if changed timestamp then alert > > [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded > [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > [GMT Jan 17 16:20:33] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] debug : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:23:05] info : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded > [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > [GMT Jan 17 16:25:37] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] debug : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:28:09] info : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded > [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > [GMT Jan 17 16:30:41] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] debug : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:33:13] info : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was not changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] debug : 'firebirdlog' file exists check succeeded > [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] debug : 'firebirdlog' is a regular file > [GMT Jan 17 16:35:45] error : 'firebirdlog' timestamp was changed for > /var/log/firebird/firebird.log > > Nick Upson > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
