Re: multiple pids

[Mike Pepe]

Graham, Jonathan wrote:
> Hmmm...I was thinking about writing something for this.  Quicktime
> Streaming Server for OSX has the same behavior only they are delimited
> by <CR>.
>
> J.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
> Of Marc Petitmermet
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 3:10 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: multiple pids
>
> Dear List Members
>
> How should I deal with a pid file containing multiple pids? E.g. nfsd  
> starts with 8 independent daemons. I grab the pids with the "pidof"  
> command at start and write them to /var/run/nfsd.pid. This file  
> contains now 8 pids, space delimited. As I have seen so far, monit  
> cannot deal with such a pid file.
>
> I could write 8 individual pid files but can monit deal with
> "check process nfsd with pidfile /var/run/nfsd[1-8].pid"
> or should I just write 8 times almost the same thing?
>
> Regards,
> Marc

And while we're at it, what would be required to correctly handle those 
weird daemons that make their pid's negative?

-Mike