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Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaning...

QUICK START

This readme serves as a quick start, please use `man monit' for documentation on the program.

Installation:

  • ./configure
  • make
  • make install
  • man monit

This will install Monit and the man-file in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man/man1 respectively. If you want another location than /usr/local, run configure with the prefix options, like so: ./configure --prefix=

Notes:

  • This directory contains an example Monit control file, called monitrc. Please read it and use it as a starting point when you write your own Monit control file.

  • Monit will probably work on most Unix systems. However, Monit is tested and known to compile and operate on: Darwin, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris.

License Notes:

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the file COPYING accompanying the Software for details.

Questions and support:

If you have questions or comments about the software or documentation please subscribe to the Monit general mailing list and post your questions there.

http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general

You can also look in the mailing list archive for answers:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monit-general/