How do I ensure monit starts on system startup?

Question

I am using the Amazon Linux AMI. I want to ensure that monit on system startup always calls

monit -c $CONFIG

where $CONIFG is the default monit configuration file location (usually /etc/monit.conf). I want to ensure it is always monitoring my services on startup.

How do I do this? I'd rather not use upstart because I'd like to restrict the number of tools I'm using for this setup.

thanks

Answer 1

Hi check out this documentation

It describes how to run programs on startup on CentOS systems (which is what Amazon Linux is). Basically you want to do this

sudo vi /etc/rc.d/rc.local

then add your command to the bottom of it.