Re: How can I keep monitoring a Zombie process?

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 5. okt. 2007, at 23.39, Martin Pala wrote:

> Should we allow further monitoring? It can be probably better (more  
> flexible).
>
> What do you think?

+ 1 I think we should


> Martin
>
>
> Martin Pala wrote:
> > Yes, the idea behind it is that the zombie process is usually  
> > unmanageable.
> > Monit thus sends alert and stops the zombie service monitoring.
> > Martin
> > MosheC wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have the following line   check process xxx with pidfile /home/ 
> > > moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid
> > > Process xxx occasionally becomes a zombie but a new one is created
> > > automatically.
> > >
> > > The problem is that monit automatically stops monitoring the  
> > > process when it
> > > zombies.
> > >
> > > I have also tried to trick Monit to think it can restart the  
> > > process itself
> > > with:
> > >    check process xxx with pidfile /home/moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid
> > >         start program = "/bin/true" ###
> > >         stop program = "/bin/true" ###
> > > but that didn't help either.