Re: multiple pids

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 19. apr. 2006, at 20.26, Marc Petitmermet wrote:

> > 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.

Well, monit cannot handle a multiple pids file as you found out. You  
need to either write 8 'check process' tests or much easier, monitor  
the port number used by nfs. For instance using something like this:

check host some.host.name with address localhost
        start = ".."
        stop = ".."
        if failed port 2049 then ...


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Jan-Henrik Haukeland