monit cannot find default monitrc on Intrepid

[Fjan]

Binary package hint: monit

After a plain vanilla install of Ubuntu 8.10 and monit and enabling the package I get this error when doing sudo monit

monit: Cannot find the control file at ~/.monitrc, /etc/monitrc, /etc/monitrc, /usr/local/etc/monitrc or at ./monitrc

This happens because the default place for the config file is /etc/monit/monitrc and it doesn't look there anymore (it worked fine in Hardy and earlier). Instead it looks (twice!) for /etc/monitrc so the fix is a simple "sudo cp /etc/monit/monitrc /etc/monitrc"

[Paul McEnery (pmcenery)]

This looks like at upstream bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479357

A fix appears to have been released.... Is it possible for this fix to be implemented in the Ubuntu package?

[agent 8131 (agent-8131)]

I can confirm this bug exists on intrepid but not hardy making it an SRU worthy fix.

A quick fix might be to symlink /etc/monitrc to /etc/monit/monitrc though I have not tested that.

[Paul McEnery (pmcenery)]

On 15/06/2009, agent 8131 <email address hidden> wrote:
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> [...]
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> A quick fix might be to symlink /etc/monitrc to /etc/monit/monitrc
> though I have not tested that.
>

IIRC from my testing, this does NOT work. Monit checks that the file
is in fact a file and not a link before starting up.

[Fjan (jmfaber)]

It's already fixed in Jaunty by te way

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Fixed in lucid as well then.

Regards
chuck