Re: [monit] using monit to monitor services of another user

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

No problem, if you run monit as root you can still start programs as  
another user. Simply use the 'as uid and gid'  sub-statements to  
start, stop and exec. For example

 check process tomcat with pidfile /var/run/tomcat.pid
       start program = "/etc/init.d/tomcat start"
             as uid nobody and gid nobody
       stop program  = "/etc/init.d/tomcat stop"
             # You can also use id numbers instead and write:
             as uid 99 and with gid 99
       if failed port 8080 then alert


On 2. juli. 2008, at 13.07, sohail khan wrote:

> Hi
> I am using monit to monitor apache and mysql. Monit is running as  
> non root user. Now I want to monitor a service running under root  
> user. If I install Monit under root user then how can I monitor the  
> services running under non-root user.
>
> I don't want to run two monits i.e One running under root user and  
> one running under non-root user.
> Sohail.