Mdthbs

I try to start monit using:

/etc/init.d/monit start

I then get the error:

[....] Starting daemon monitor: monit/etc/init.d/monit: 124: /etc/init.d/monit: start-stop-daemon: not found

failed!

Typing

which start-stop-daemon

shows

/sbin/start-stop-daemon

ls -al in /sbin shows

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root     26740 Jan 21 12:18 start-stop-daemon

edit: adding script

#!/bin/sh



### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          monit

# Required-Start:    $remote_fs

# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs

# Should-Start:      $all

# Should-Stop:       $all

# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:      0 1 6

# Short-Description: service and resource monitoring daemon

# Description:       monit is a utility for managing and monitoring

#                    processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems

#                    on a Unix system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance

#                    and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions

#                    in error situations.

### END INIT INFO



set -e



. /lib/lsb/init-functions



DAEMON=/usr/bin/monit

CONFIG="/etc/monit/monitrc"

DELAY="/etc/monit/monit_delay"

NAME=monit

DESC="daemon monitor"

MONIT_OPTS=

PID="/var/run/$NAME.pid"



# Check if DAEMON binary exist

[ -f $DAEMON ] || exit 0



[ -f "/etc/default/$NAME" ] && . /etc/default/$NAME



# For backward compatibility, handle startup variable:

if [ -n "$startup" ]

then

  if [ "$1" = "start" ]

  then

    printf "tPlease, use START variable in /etc/default/monitn"

    printf "tto enable/disable $NAME startup.n"

  fi



  if [ -z "$START" ] && [ "$startup" -eq 1 ]

  then

    START="yes"

  fi

fi



# For backward compatibility, handle CHECK_INTERVALS variable:

if [ -n "$CHECK_INTERVALS" ]

then

  if [ "$1" = "start" ]

  then

    printf "tPlease, use MONIT_OPTS variable in /etc/default/monitn"

    printf "tto specify command line options for $NAME.n"

  fi



  MONIT_OPTS="$MONIT_OPTS -d $CHECK_INTERVALS"

fi



MONIT_OPTS="-c $CONFIG $MONIT_OPTS"



monit_not_configured () {

  if [ "$1" != "stop" ]

  then

    printf "tplease configure $NAME and then edit /etc/default/$NAMEn"

    printf "tand set the "START" variable to "yes" in order to allown"

    printf "t$NAME to startn"

  fi

  exit 0

}



monit_check_config () {

  # Check for emtpy config.

  if [ "`grep -s -v "^#" $CONFIG`" = "" ]

  then

    echo "empty config, please edit $CONFIG."

    exit 0

  fi

}



monit_check_perms () {

  # Check the permission on configfile.

  # The permission must not have more than -rwx------ (0700) permissions.



  # Skip checking, fix perms instead.

  /bin/chmod go-rwx $CONFIG

}



monit_delayed_monitoring () {

  if [ -f $DELAY ]

  then

    printf "Warning: Please, set start delay for $NAME in config filen"

    printf "         and delete $DELAY file.n"



    if [ ! -x $DELAY ]

    then

      printf "Warning: A delayed start file exists ($DELAY)n"

      printf "         but it is not executable.n"

    else

      $DELAY &

    fi

  fi

}



monit_checks () {

  # Check if START variable is set to "yes", if not we exit.

  if [ "$START" != "yes" ]

  then

    monit_not_configured $1

  fi

  # Check for emtpy configfile

  monit_check_config

  # Check permissions of configfile

  monit_check_perms

}



case "$1" in

  start)

    log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"

    monit_checks $1

    if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo 

                         --pidfile $PID --exec $DAEMON 

                         -- $MONIT_OPTS

    then

      log_end_msg 0

    else

      log_end_msg 1

    fi

    monit_delayed_monitoring

    ;;

  stop)

    log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"

    if start-stop-daemon --retry TERM/5/KILL/5 --oknodo --stop --quiet 

                         --pidfile $PID --exec $DAEMON

    then

      log_end_msg 0

    else

      log_end_msg 1

    fi

    ;;

  reload)

    log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC configuration" "$NAME"

    if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet 

                                --oknodo --pidfile $PID 

                                --exec $DAEMON -- $MONIT_OPTS

    then

      log_end_msg 0

    else

      log_end_msg 1

    fi

    ;;

  restart|force-reload)

    $0 stop

    $0 start

    ;;

  syntax)

    $DAEMON $MONIT_OPTS -t

    ;;

  status)

    status_of_proc -p $PID $DAEMON $NAME

    ;;

  *)

    log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|syntax|status}"

    ;;

esac



exit 0

On Debian 7 I had a similar error: daemon: not found

And I was able to fix it with:

apt-get install daemon

1. 
   

   Make sure to add PATH to your script and that it includes /sbin. Since the init script won't share the PATH environment variable with the rest of the system you need to set it directly on your script and make sure /sbin is in there, for example, add:

   
   
   

    PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
   
   

   
   
   

   At the beginning of your script.

   
   


2. 
   

   Debug your script to make sure start-stop-daemon is reading the path of monit correctly from the DAEMON variable. In order to do that add the following line at the beginning of your script:

   
   
   

   set -x #echo on
   
   

   
   
   

   The whole thing would look like

   
   
   

   #!/bin/sh
   
   set -x #echo on
   
   ### BEGIN INIT INFO
   
   # Provides:          monit
   
   # Required-Start:    $remote_fs
   
   # Required-Stop:     $remote_fs
   
   # Should-Start:      $all
   
   # Should-Stop:       $all
   
   # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
   
   # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
   
   # Short-Description: service and resource monitoring daemon
   
   # Description:       monit is a utility for managing and monitoring
   
   #                    processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems
   
   #                    on a Unix system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance
   
   #                    and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions
   
   #                    in error situations.
   
   ### END INIT INFO
   
   
   
   set -e
   
   
   
   PATH=/sbin:/rest of your path here.
   
   

   
   
   

   Your script.

   
   
   

   If DAEMON is corrupted somehow try surrounding it with parenthesis:

   
   
   

   if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo 
   
                        --pidfile $PID --exec $($DAEMON) 
   
                        -- $MONIT_OPTS
   
   

   
   
   

   Or simply add the path to the binary directly.

   
   
   

       if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo 
   
                            --pidfile $PID --exec /usr/bin/monit 
   
                            -- $MONIT_OPTS
   
   

   
   



3. If the last option doesn't work then make sure the binary is actually there. If it is then you will have to check if start-stop-daemon is actually permitted to access it. Look into chrooting.

glad, you could fix it with apt-get install deamon

in my case it was a missing link from: /bin/busybox to /sbin/start-stop-daemon

cd /sbin

ln -s ../bin/busybox start-stop-daemon

that fixed it.