Re: multiple pids

[Marc Petitmermet]

> Usually one of those processes are the control-process and you only  
> need to monitor, start and stop that one. It's probably the one  
> with the lowest pid of the eights. Test by sending this process the  
> SIGTERM signal to check if it takes down the rest.

Not for nfsd. As I mentioned before these are 8 independent daemons;  
there is no parent or control process.

Regards,
Marc


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> Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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> On 19. apr. 2006, at 09.10, Marc Petitmermet wrote:
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> > 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
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