Re: [webmin-l] Service Monitors - Jamie's book

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Alex Pilson wrote:
> So does anyone know what exactly the "If monitor goes down, run command" 
> feature really does?

It runs a command of your choosing (including a script).

> i can't get it to work. Does it run as a certain user? I want to run a 
> script to restart the service but it doesn't seem to work and I have no 
> clue where to look if there are any status messages.

It runs as root.  If your service stops, odds are there was a good 
reason for it, and it will stop again.  I usually have it page me or 
email me (depending on importance of the service).

Your script can run things as a different user using su, but the script 
itself will be called as root.

Jamie, it might be useful to have a "Run as user" option...
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Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
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