Re: restart program

[Marcus Mülbüsch]

> Gentoo also provides "zap" to reset a service to stopped in its cache,
> but that's probably a bit more than monit can be expected to address.

Use:

start program = "/etc/init.d/vixie-cron zap start"
stop program = "/etc/init.d/vixie-cron stop zap"

and even restarts work like a charm.

Some problems remain when a process leaves a pid file, and your restart 
attempts reach the timeout limit before the pid file is removed. But 
that seems hardly a monit problem.