How To Install monit on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on Rocky Linux 8. monit is Manages and monitors processes, files, directories and devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on Rocky Linux 8.

What is monit

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

We can use yum or dnf to install monit on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install monit.

Install monit on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install monit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install monit

Install monit on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install monit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install monit

How To Uninstall monit on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the monit package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove monit

monit Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/logrotate.d/monit
/etc/monit.d
/etc/monit.d/logging
/etc/monitrc
/usr/bin/monit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/71ad8c05c1c78523ae566958e729a7178ff6ff
/usr/lib/systemd/system/monit.service
/usr/share/doc/monit
/usr/share/doc/monit/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/monit/README
/usr/share/man/man1/monit.1.gz
/var/log/monit.log

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.