Re: Application fails to start.

[jbelant]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> This is not good:
>
>      ( /home/eminer/cA3Server/cA3Server > /dev/tty6 ) &
>      pgrep cA3Server > /var/run/cA3Server.pid
>
> This means that the shell will start the cA3Server in a new sub-process 
> and the control jumps immediately to the pgrep command. In other words 
> the pgrep command may finnish before the cA3Server was started. This 
> should explain why you got an empty value in the pid file. Use the exec 
> statement to start the server and *do not* put the server in the 
> background, monit does this automatically when it calls the script. See 
> also the startup script example in the FAQ.

I've modified my script to use exec. Please see my reply to Martin.

Thanks for your help,

Jim