Re: exec-action

[Christian Kowarzik]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> 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(?)
would'nt there be a difference in the way retry and timeout behave?
- if you use retry, the service would still be monitored while down 
(after x retry times)
 (this is what i need :-)
- if you use timeout, the service would not be monitored after timeout

so retry and timeout are usefull

christian

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