I try to start monit using:
/etc/init.d/monit start
I then get the error:
[....] Starting daemon monitor: monit/etc/init.d/monit: 124: /etc/init.d/monit: start-stop-daemon: not found
failed!
Typing
which start-stop-daemon
shows
/sbin/start-stop-daemon
ls -al in /sbin shows
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26740 Jan 21 12:18 start-stop-daemon
edit: adding script
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: monit
# Required-Start: $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $all
# Should-Stop: $all
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: service and resource monitoring daemon
# Description: monit is a utility for managing and monitoring
# processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems
# on a Unix system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance
# and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions
# in error situations.
### END INIT INFO
set -e
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
DAEMON=/usr/bin/monit
CONFIG="/etc/monit/monitrc"
DELAY="/etc/monit/monit_delay"
NAME=monit
DESC="daemon monitor"
MONIT_OPTS=
PID="/var/run/$NAME.pid"
# Check if DAEMON binary exist
[ -f $DAEMON ] || exit 0
[ -f "/etc/default/$NAME" ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
# For backward compatibility, handle startup variable:
if [ -n "$startup" ]
then
if [ "$1" = "start" ]
then
printf "\tPlease, use START variable in /etc/default/monit\n"
printf "\tto enable/disable $NAME startup.\n"
fi
if [ -z "$START" ] && [ "$startup" -eq 1 ]
then
START="yes"
fi
fi
# For backward compatibility, handle CHECK_INTERVALS variable:
if [ -n "$CHECK_INTERVALS" ]
then
if [ "$1" = "start" ]
then
printf "\tPlease, use MONIT_OPTS variable in /etc/default/monit\n"
printf "\tto specify command line options for $NAME.\n"
fi
MONIT_OPTS="$MONIT_OPTS -d $CHECK_INTERVALS"
fi
MONIT_OPTS="-c $CONFIG $MONIT_OPTS"
monit_not_configured () {
if [ "$1" != "stop" ]
then
printf "\tplease configure $NAME and then edit /etc/default/$NAME\n"
printf "\tand set the \"START\" variable to \"yes\" in order to allow\n"
printf "\t$NAME to start\n"
fi
exit 0
}
monit_check_config () {
# Check for emtpy config.
if [ "`grep -s -v \"^#\" $CONFIG`" = "" ]
then
echo "empty config, please edit $CONFIG."
exit 0
fi
}
monit_check_perms () {
# Check the permission on configfile.
# The permission must not have more than -rwx------ (0700) permissions.
# Skip checking, fix perms instead.
/bin/chmod go-rwx $CONFIG
}
monit_delayed_monitoring () {
if [ -f $DELAY ]
then
printf "Warning: Please, set start delay for $NAME in config file\n"
printf " and delete $DELAY file.\n"
if [ ! -x $DELAY ]
then
printf "Warning: A delayed start file exists ($DELAY)\n"
printf " but it is not executable.\n"
else
$DELAY &
fi
fi
}
monit_checks () {
# Check if START variable is set to "yes", if not we exit.
if [ "$START" != "yes" ]
then
monit_not_configured $1
fi
# Check for emtpy configfile
monit_check_config
# Check permissions of configfile
monit_check_perms
}
case "$1" in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
monit_checks $1
if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo \
--pidfile $PID --exec $DAEMON \
-- $MONIT_OPTS
then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
monit_delayed_monitoring
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
if start-stop-daemon --retry TERM/5/KILL/5 --oknodo --stop --quiet \
--pidfile $PID --exec $DAEMON
then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
reload)
log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC configuration" "$NAME"
if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet \
--oknodo --pidfile $PID \
--exec $DAEMON -- $MONIT_OPTS
then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
restart|force-reload)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
syntax)
$DAEMON $MONIT_OPTS -t
;;
status)
status_of_proc -p $PID $DAEMON $NAME
;;
*)
log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|syntax|status}"
;;
esac
exit 0
