Can monit block/wait on start/stop exec at all?

[Chris McKenzie]

Hi all.

Can monit block or wait for a stop/start call to complete? I never had any 
problems with service restart scripts that would call monit to stop a bunch 
of service, perform some config or maintenance task, then start them back up 
again on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, but after upgrading to RHEL4 I've been 
finding some strange behaviour that's not easy to nail down.

I don't know if its something new in RHEL4 or its kernel but monit will 
exec/fork the stop call and return or complete its own execution before the 
process has stopped. Even in cases where I've beefed up the init.d script to 
most definately wait for all pids to exit before returning.

Is there any way to get monit to block on program exec? This would be super 
helpful. I understand the reasons it currently doesn't and I'm fine with 
that. But if you could identify a single process in its config and block on 
the program's exec, it would make integrating/automating monit that much 
easier.

I can always build a wait block after the monit stop service calls before 
continuing but its the kind of thing you put into the init script.

Thanks!

- Chris