On 7/12/19 10:49 AM, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 07:31:19PM +0200, Damjan Hajsek wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I like to know how can I monitor shorewall with monit.
>>
>> So I like to use monit which check if software runs but shorewall have no
>> pid file.
> 
> Shorewall isn't a resident daemon so there's no process nor PID.
> 
>> Is there any other file created when shorewall is up?
> 
> Creating a file isn't great since the file could exist if it wasn't removed on
> boot, maybe if there was some issue and root was readonly and fw wasn't 
> started.
> 
> Can't you just take the exit status of iptables -L |grep -m1 Shorewall ?
> 

Or the exit status of 'shorewall status'

-Tom
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