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jackhab
Asked: 2010-01-28 02:31:07 +0800 CST

vsftpd does not create pid file required for monit

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I want to monitor vsftpd server from monit on CentOS 5.4 but somehow vsftpd does not create pid file in /var/run (nor in any other place).

Is this behavior normal for this distro? How should I configure monit to watch for vsftpd, should I create pid file manually in /etc/init.d/vsftpd script?

Thanks.

ftp service monitoring monit

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can try this: monit: check process without pidfile

    check process vsftpd
 matching vsftpd
 start program = "/etc/init.d/vsftpd start"
 stop program = "/etc/init.d/vsftpd stop"

    Alternatively you can follow the guide I put together using aforementioned init file. Created RPM to keep the system consistent across updates (via fpm). New init file has modified service name vsftpd-pid so you can keep vsftpd stopped and vsftpd-pid running.

    Remember to change your monit start and stop commands too.

    More info here: http://bemehow.github.com/2012/11/15/monit-vsftpd/

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  2. I created a replacement init script for vsftpd on Centos 5.4 that will create the PID files:

    http://gist.github.com/508889

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  3. Yes, this is normal (for any distro). vsftpd does not write out a pid file.

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