On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > monit is spamming me with spurious "monit alert -- Link up eth0" > > > > messages every 2 minutes! I currently have no Ethernet cable, so > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > that "Link up eth0" is wrong, and there are no recent lines about > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > eth0 in the journalctl output. > > > > Please, show /proc/net/dev on system, which is spamming. > > Inter-| Receive | Transmit > face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes > packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed > eth0: 956331421 927630 0 0 0 0 0 5275 101028194 > 623527 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > > > [CEST Jun 23 12:19:47] info : 'eth0' link data collection succeeded > > > [CEST Jun 23 12:19:47] error : 'eth0' link down > > > > It seems, you have an interface with cable unplugged. > > Yes, as said above.
Ok, I see, thank you for patience. Does it send you alert if you remove "if changed link capacity then alert" line too, correct? If so, I suspect that the currect monit's behaviour is correct and I suggest you just adding "if failed link then unmonitor"-like line.
