Monit network availability checking

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Published on 2009-12-24T10:54:05Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 18:10 UTC
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Hi, I'd like to start a service with monit but only when I have the correct ip bound to the host. Can this be done somehow with the normal config? For example I want to start a process xxx with pidfile xxx.pid, but only if host currently has 10.0.0.1 bound to some interface.

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