Monit won't start: "Cannot translate '' to FQDN name -- nodename nor servname provided"

Question

I installed monit-5.3.2 on OS X 10.7 but haven't been able to get it running.

When I run sudo monit -t I get:

monit: Cannot translate 'hakan' to FQDN name -- nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Control file syntax OK

When I run sudo monit restart all I get:

monit: Cannot translate 'hakan' to FQDN name -- nodename nor servname provided, or not known
monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support?

'hakan' is my hostname.

Here is my /etc/monitrc:

set daemon 60
set idfile /tmp/monit.id
set statefile /tmp/monit.state
set mailserver localhost
set alert systems@abcd.net
set httpd port 2812 and use address localhost

Any ideas? I've had no luck finding this on Google. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is an error of getaddrinfo, which is called by monit to figure out the fqdn of your server.

You must not have fqdn set up in your dns for your server.if you do not control the dns server, you may work around it by adding an entry in /etc/hosts like so:

192.168.x.y hakan hakan.local.domain

where the first one is your server ip.