Alternative ways of providing Monit

[kheops2713]

It may be possible to avoid including the monit binary in the git repo:

• if the wheezy-backports version of monit (5.6) is recent enough for what we want
• by downloading the precompiled binary from the official website
• by downloading and compiling the source on the managed host, as it seems Monit's only notable dependancy is openssl

[boreal321]

Sounds good.

[kheops2713]

Any préference? I would personally go for either the first or third one: download source and compile directly on the server, unless the version 5.6 from the backports Debian repo provides the required features (version in the stable repo is 5.4).

[boreal321]

Backports is probably the easiest way. Let's test if that version has the missing feature. I can't remember the feature now. :( I think it was that the standard output from the script was emailed in the alert.