Hi, monit 5.5.1 fails to start when the file in the check file directive does not exist:
checksum: file /home/user/.zshrcc is not regular file /etc/monit/monitrc:165: Error: cannot compute a checksum for file /home/user/.zshrcc '/home/user/.zshrcc' ...fail! The man page says: CHECK FILE <unique name> PATH <path> [...] If the file does not exist or disappeared, Monit will call the entry's start method if defined, if <path> does not point to a regular file type (for instance a directory), Monit will disable monitoring of this entry. If Monit runs in passive mode or the start methods is not defined, Monit will just send alerts on errors. So Monit should stop monitoring the file and not try to run any tests on the non-existing file. Thorsten -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
