Re: [monit] Monitoring processes without a pidfile

[Brian Downey]

On Jul 21, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Daniel Clark wrote:

> Is there syntax I'm missing or a "trick" to monitor a process where
> the daemon does not support the use of pid files?

Not any that I've been able to find.  Generally we just use a wrapper  
script
to drop ${$} into a pid file, then `exec' the actual program.

> I've thought of wrapping the daemon in a shell script or something,
> but that wouldn't work out with logrotate et all doing a "kill -HUP"
> of the process (one could of course make that use the wrapper as well,
> but then things start to seem really kludgey).

Our approach was to simply use monit to handle everything.  In your  
postrotate
you'd put "monit restart <process>" instead of the kill.

-Brian