Hello Frwa,

the program check was added in Monit 5.3 - you need to upgrade Monit.

The concept of include files allows to modularize the configuration - it's 
optional and if you want to keep it simple, put everything into single monitrc 
file (otherwise the include files can be enabled using "include" statement - 
see manual for details).

Regards,
Martin


On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:02 PM, frwa onto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Werner,
>                    So if we keep separate how will the monit executable will 
> be able to read different .conf file? Ok I got it why you want to keep it 
> separate it due to updates of monit. So since I am on the bad side what is 
> your best advice here ? Any other method to simulate it.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Werner Flamme <[email protected]> wrote:
> frwa onto [24.09.2013 17:21]:
> > Dear Werner,
> >                    I dont understand what is the need of the extra
> > ossec.conf why not its in the main monit.conf ?
> 
> You can put anything you wrote into the separate file into monit.conf
> (which I don't have, it's monitrc for me). The reason for keeping it
> separated is that on an update, the central config may be rewritten, and
> that your parts of the config might get lost. If you keep it in a
> separate file, it will stay there even when you update monit.
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM, frwa onto <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Werner,
> >>                    I went into the man page here
> >> http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#program_status_testing so
> >> I read and change it to this now check program test_ossec  with path
> >> "/usr/bin/test_ossec" with timeout 1000 seconds and still get service monit
> >> start
> >> Starting monit: /etc/monit.d/ossec.conf:1: Error: syntax error 'test_ossec'
> >>                                                            [FAILED]
> >>  . I think my problem why it does not recognize could it be due to my
> >> monit version is  monit -V
> >> This is monit version 5.1.1
> >> Copyright (C) 2000-2010 by Tildeslash Ltd. All Rights Reserved. I am using
> >> Centos 6.4 and epel repo. Another thing how I start the ossec is via the
> >> /var/ossec/bin/ossec-control start not via the /etc/init.d scripts.
> 
> From what I found, "check program" must have been introduced with
> version 5.3, so you are on the bad side here.
> 
> Regards,
> Werner
> 
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