Install Monit 5.23 (Ubuntu 16.04)

install-monit

#!/bin/bash

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#### Install Monit 5.23 (Ubuntu 16.04) ####
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#### binaries list: https://mmonit.com/monit/dist/binary/
#### downloads: https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/downloads/

## install outdated repo version ##
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical PATH='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin' /usr/bin/apt-get -q --yes -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" install monit

## upgrade binary ##
/etc/init.d/monit stop
cd /tmp/
wget https://mmonit.com/monit/dist/binary/5.23.0/monit-5.23.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar zxvf monit-*
cd monit-*
cp bin/monit /usr/bin/monit
# mkdir /etc/monit
# touch /etc/monit/monitrc
ln -s /etc/monit/monitrc /etc/monitrc

## custom config ##
cd /tmp/
wget --no-cache http://mirrors.littlebizzy.com/monit/monitrc.txt
mv monitrc.txt monitrc
cp -R -f -d --no-preserve=mode,ownership /tmp/monitrc /etc/monit/monitrc
chown root:root /etc/monit/monitrc
chmod 0700 /etc/monit/monitrc 

## restart monit ##
/etc/init.d/monit restart