How To Install monit on Fedora 34

monit is Manages and monitors processes, files, directories and devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install monit.

Install monit on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install monit

Install monit on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove monit

monit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/monit.d
/etc/monitrc
/usr/bin/monit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/049daea3d8ff3128faabcbba86a2bb6fc4bfba
/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

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.