Run symbiosis-monit from a systemd timer.

monit/debian/control

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: web
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: James Carter <jcarter@bytemark.co.uk>
 Uploaders: Patrick J Cherry <patrick@bytemark.co.uk>, Steve Kemp <steve@bytemark.co.uk>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), txt2man, gem2deb, ruby
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), txt2man, gem2deb, ruby, dh-systemd
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 XS-Ruby-Versions: all
 

monit/debian/rules

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #export DH_RUBY_GEMSPEC=gem.gemspec
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --buildsystem=ruby --with ruby
+	dh $@ --buildsystem=ruby --with ruby,systemd
 
 override_dh_auto_build-indep:
 	$(MAKE) all

monit/debian/symbiosis-monit.service

+[Unit]
+Description=Symbiosis monitoring
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/symbiosis-monit

monit/debian/symbiosis-monit.timer

+[Unit]
+Description=Regularly execute symbiosis-monit.service
+
+[Timer]
+# run every 2 minutes
+OnCalendar=* *-*-* *:00,02,04,06,08,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58:00
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=timers.target