Re: Multiple processes started when explicit start commands are used on dependant processes.

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 27. jan. 2006, at 20.36, P Holdaway wrote:

>   There appears to be a race condition when issuing monit start  
> commands on
> processes that are dependant on each other.
>
>   To illustrate...
>
>   Given processes b1 to b8 are dependant on process a.
>
>   If I stop all processes and then issue a separate start command  
> for each
> process, I see in monit.log that the process b1 is being started  
> twice. Once
> as a result of the dependency on process a, and once because of an  
> explicit
> start command.
>
>   I have attached some files to help reproduce this problem.


You have a bug in your run.sh script I think. If I use this,

'start')
        echo "Starting $name"
        echo $$ > "$this_dir/$name.pid"
        exec sleep 123456
        ;;

every process start and stop in order without any race condition...

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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