make failure installing monit on linux ec2

Question

I'm trying to install monit on linux. I ran the following commands :

wget http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/monit-5.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf monit-5.5.tar.gz
cd monit-5.5
./configure

and when i try :

make && make install

I get :

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

monit-5.5 directory contains the following :

$ ls
CHANGES      Makefile.in  bootstrap   configure     doc       monitrc
COPYING      README       config      configure.ac  libmonit  src
Makefile.am  aclocal.m4   config.log  contrib       monit.1

don't know what's the problem. thank you for your help.

[ec2-user@...~]$ sudo tar zxvf monit-5.5.tar.gz.1 monit-5.5/
monit-5.5/src/
monit-5.5/src/http/
monit-5.5/src/http/base64.h
monit-5.5/src/http/processor.h
monit-5.5/src/http/base64.c
monit-5.5/src/http/cervlet.c
monit-5.5/src/http/cervlet.h
monit-5.5/src/http/engine.h
monit-5.5/src/http/engine.c
monit-5.5/src/http/processor.c
monit-5.5/src/http/httpstatus.h
monit-5.5/src/p.y
monit-5.5/src/collector.c
monit-5.5/src/util.h
monit-5.5/src/ssl.c
monit-5.5/src/status.c
monit-5.5/src/monit.h
monit-5.5/src/log.c
monit-5.5/src/net.c
monit-5.5/src/y.tab.c
monit-5.5/src/file.h
monit-5.5/src/socket.h
monit-5.5/src/md5_crypt.c
monit-5.5/src/event.c
monit-5.5/src/md5.c
monit-5.5/src/daemonize.c
monit-5.5/src/signal.c
monit-5.5/src/process.h
monit-5.5/src/sha1.c
monit-5.5/src/lex.yy.c
monit-5.5/src/md5_crypt.h
monit-5.5/src/socket.c
monit-5.5/src/control.c
monit-5.5/src/config.h.in
monit-5.5/src/net.h
monit-5.5/src/env.c
monit-5.5/src/util.c
monit-5.5/src/alert.c
monit-5.5/src/l.l
monit-5.5/src/state.c
monit-5.5/src/alert.h
monit-5.5/src/md5.h
monit-5.5/src/http.c
monit-5.5/src/validate.c
monit-5.5/src/process.c
monit-5.5/src/gc.c
monit-5.5/src/device/
monit-5.5/src/device/device_sysdep.h
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_LINUX.c
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_NETBSD.c
monit-5.5/src/device/device.h
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_DARWIN.c
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_OPENBSD.c
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_UNKNOWN.c
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_SOLARIS.c
monit-5.5/src/device/device_common.c
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_AIX.c
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_FREEBSD.c
monit-5.5/src/device/sysdep_HPUX.c
monit-5.5/src/tokens.h
monit-5.5/src/state.h
monit-5.5/src/file.c
monit-5.5/src/spawn.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/
monit-5.5/src/protocols/rsync.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/pgsql.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/mysql.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/ftp.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/protocol.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/apache_status.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/lmtp.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/dns.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/ntp3.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/sip.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/nntp.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/tns.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/ldap2.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/smtp.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/ldap3.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/radius.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/http.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/dwp.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/imap.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/default.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/gps.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/protocol.h
monit-5.5/src/protocols/pop.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/generic.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/ssh.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/memcache.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/clamav.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/postfix_policy.c
monit-5.5/src/protocols/rdate.c
monit-5.5/src/event.h
monit-5.5/src/xml.c
monit-5.5/src/ssl.h
monit-5.5/src/sha1.h
monit-5.5/src/process/
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_LINUX.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_NETBSD.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_DARWIN.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_OPENBSD.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_UNKNOWN.c
monit-5.5/src/process/process_sysdep.h
monit-5.5/src/process/process_common.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_SOLARIS.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_AIX.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_FREEBSD.c
monit-5.5/src/process/sysdep_HPUX.c
monit-5.5/src/sendmail.c
monit-5.5/src/monit.c
monit-5.5/monitrc
monit-5.5/CHANGES
monit-5.5/monit.1
monit-5.5/configure.ac
monit-5.5/configure
monit-5.5/aclocal.m4
monit-5.5/Makefile.in
monit-5.5/bootstrap
monit-5.5/libmonit/
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/thread/
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/thread/Thread.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/thread/Thread.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Time.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Net.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Mem.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Mem.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Net.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/System.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Command.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Time.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/System.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Process.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/system/Command.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/File.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/Dir.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/InputStream.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/InputStream.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/OutputStream.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/OutputStream.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/File.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/io/Dir.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/util/
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/util/Str.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/util/Str.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/util/StringBuffer.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/util/StringBuffer.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/util/List.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/util/List.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/xconfig.h.in
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/Bootstrap.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/Bootstrap.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/MemoryException.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/AssertException.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/Exception.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/NumberFormatException.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/IOException.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/assert.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/Exception.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/exceptions/assert.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/src/Config.h
monit-5.5/libmonit/libtool
monit-5.5/libmonit/Makefile
monit-5.5/libmonit/configure.ac
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/OutputStreamTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/Makefile
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/FileTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/StrTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/TimeTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/CommandTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/Makefile.in
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/ListTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/DirTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/NetTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/test.sh
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/StringBufferTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/ExceptionTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/Makefile.am
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/SystemTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/InputStreamTest.c
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/data/
monit-5.5/libmonit/test/data/stream.data
monit-5.5/libmonit/configure
monit-5.5/libmonit/aclocal.m4
monit-5.5/libmonit/Makefile.in
monit-5.5/libmonit/bootstrap
monit-5.5/libmonit/config/
monit-5.5/libmonit/config/config.guess
monit-5.5/libmonit/config/missing
monit-5.5/libmonit/config/ltmain.sh
monit-5.5/libmonit/config/install-sh
monit-5.5/libmonit/config/config.sub
monit-5.5/libmonit/COPYING
monit-5.5/libmonit/README
monit-5.5/libmonit/Makefile.am
monit-5.5/libmonit/m4/
monit-5.5/libmonit/m4/libtool.m4
monit-5.5/libmonit/m4/lt~obsolete.m4
monit-5.5/libmonit/m4/ltsugar.m4
monit-5.5/libmonit/m4/ltoptions.m4
monit-5.5/libmonit/m4/ltversion.m4
monit-5.5/contrib/
monit-5.5/contrib/monitrc-gentoo
monit-5.5/contrib/rc.monit
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/pkg-message
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/distinfo
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/Makefile
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/files/
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/files/monit.sh
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/pkg-descr
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/freebsd/README.porter
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/redhat/
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/redhat/monit.spec
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/solaris/
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/solaris/README.solaris
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/solaris/init.monit
monit-5.5/contrib/packages/solaris/makesolpkg.sh
monit-5.5/contrib/monit.upstart.in
monit-5.5/contrib/monit.service.in
monit-5.5/contrib/monit.service
monit-5.5/contrib/monit.upstart
monit-5.5/config/
monit-5.5/config/config.guess
monit-5.5/config/missing
monit-5.5/config/ltmain.sh
monit-5.5/config/install-sh
monit-5.5/config/config.sub
monit-5.5/COPYING
monit-5.5/README
monit-5.5/doc/
monit-5.5/doc/monit.pod
monit-5.5/doc/PLATFORMS
monit-5.5/Makefile.am
[ec2-user@domU-12-31-39-03-28-A1 ~]$ ls
crawller                    monit-5.5           node-v0.8.14         tmp
m_2.2.0.tgz                 monit-5.5.tar.gz    node-v0.8.14.tar.gz
mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.2.0  monit-5.5.tar.gz.1  nodejs
[ec2-user@domU-12-31-39-03-28-A1 ~]$ cd monit-5.5
[ec2-user@domU-12-31-39-03-28-A1 monit-5.5]$ sudo ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
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checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
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checking for net/if.h... yes
checking for netinet/ip_icmp.h... yes
checking for sys/sysctl.h... yes
checking for sys/mount.h... yes
checking for sys/proc.h... no
checking for sys/swap.h... yes
checking for sys/ucred.h... no
checking for sys/user.h... yes
checking for machine/vmparam.h... no
checking for vm/pmap.h... no
checking for machine/pmap.h... no
checking for vm/vm_map.h... no
checking for vm/vm_object.h... no
checking for sys/resourcevar.h... no
checking for uvm/uvm_map.h... no
checking for uvm/uvm_pmap.h... no
checking for uvm/uvm_object.h... no
checking for mode_t... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for pid_t... (cached) yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for struct tm.tm_gmtoff... no
checking for error_at_line... yes
checking vfork.h usability... no
checking vfork.h presence... no
checking for vfork.h... no
checking for fork... yes
checking for vfork... yes
checking for working fork... yes
checking for working vfork... (cached) yes
checking whether lstat correctly handles trailing slash... yes
checking whether stat accepts an empty string... no
checking for strftime... yes
checking for statfs... yes
checking for statvfs... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for getaddrinfo... yes
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checking for vsyslog... yes
checking for backtrace... yes
checking for getloadavg... yes
checking for SOL_IP... yes
checking for va_copy... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking pid file location... /var/run
checking for large files support... enabled
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for PAM support... enabled
checking for pam_start in -lpam... no
configure: error: PAM enabled but headers or library not found, install the PAM development support or run configure --without-pam
[ec2-user@... monit-5.5]$ make && make install
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Answer 1

Thank you very much, you were right, the problem was I didn't have pam and ssl headers installed So what I did that solved the problem :

sudo -s
sudo yum install pam-devel
sudo yum install openssl-devel
sudo yum update (probably not necessary but to be on the sife side)

then, I had problems with the monitrc file so i copied it to ~ and

chmod 0700 ~/.monitrc

Answer 2

I ended up to this question trying to figure out the same issue on Debian. So here is what I needed to do to get it working on Debian.

#Install dependencies and required tools
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libpam0g-dev gcc make 

# CHECK LATEST MONIT VERSION http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/
wget http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/monit-5.12.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf monit-5.12.2.tar.gz
cd monit-5.12.2/
sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/sbin --bindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc/monit/
sudo make
sudo make install

I needed to install libssl-dev and libpam0g-dev to make it work. I also added some options to configure to make it match the usual locations.

Answer 3

Make sure that you have installed all of the required dependencies needed to build Monit. After some research I couldn't turn up what they are, but they are probably in the documentation. Of course, after you get that figured out, re-extract the tar archive to refresh the contents of the directory.

Answer 4

You should install the correct libraries for pam and readline: The PAM libraries are needed for the PAM plugin.

On the Centos and RHEL -build VMs, install the pam-devel package:

sudo yum install pam-devel

On all the Debian/Ubuntu -build virtual machines, install libpam0g-dev:

sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev

On debian6/maverick/natty, install libreadline5-dev (replacing any libreadline6-dev already there):

sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev

On oneiric (and any newer, eg. Debian 7 or Ubuntu 12.04), the package is called libreadline-gplv2-dev:

sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev