Re: exec-action

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 23. jan. 2006, at 21.35, Martin Pala wrote:

> Maybe we can add generic 'retry' argument to the action to set the  
> count of actions performed when the service remains in the same  
> state. Something like:
>
>   if failed then <action1> [retry <x> [times]]
>   [else if passed then <action2> [retry <y> [times]]]

Nice suggestion! +1

> - add the 'retry' option to the <action> (value of -1 means no limits)

Or if not [retry] is used, defaults to no limits.

> - try the action only once by default (even in the case of failed  
> state)

Retry is better, for a process you may want monit to try and (re) 
start it on each poll-cycle until timeout. I just saw that with retry  
we do not need the timeout statement. Hmm :) Retry is a new paradigm  
which means we can refactor away timeout(?)

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