Re: [monit] Problem monitoring mongrel Rails servers

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 3. april. 2008, at 17.08, SMITH Duncan wrote:
> I have checked for permissions problems, but the start and stop  
> scripts work fine from the commandline, run as root, and the monit  
> is running as root also.
>
> I also tried monitoring apache, and the start/stop worked fine using  
> a similar script, so I expect something may be wrong with mongrels  
> but I cannot see what it could be, since they work fine otherwise.

From the faq:
For security reasons monit purges the environment and only set a  
spartan PATH variable that contains /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/ 
sbin. If monit cannot run your program or script cannot, the reason  
could be that the script expects certain environment variables or to  
find certain programs via the PATH. If this is the case you should set  
the environment variables you need directly in the start or stop  
script called by monit.