Re: [monit] empty pidfile

[Dan Urist]

Thanks, killing the process before starting it seems to work. I also
removed the pidfile in the shell command.

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:19:11 +0100
Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Dan Urist wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:12:47 +0100
> > Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> In this case monit should restart the process - can you try to run
> >> it with -v option?:
> >> 
> >>  monit -vI
> >> 
> >> I think the problem could be that the startup script which is
> >> called by monit exits when it finds existing pidfile. 
> > 
> > On further investigation, it seems that monit can handle a start
> > action correctly with an empty pidfile, but not a stop action. This
> > is where I'm getting the "pidfile does not exist" error, and the
> > init script is never being run (I checked the init script; it just
> > does a pkill without looking at the pidfile).
> 
> 
> 
> The stop action for "check process" is called only when process' pid
> is running - if process wasn't found, stop is skipped as it is
> supposed to be unnecessary when process doesn't exist already. You
> can fix this by making sure that the start script will kill the
> process ... either modify the start script or set monit start action
> like this:
> 
>   check process myprocess with pidfile ...
>     start program = "/bin/bash -c '/bin/pkill -9
> myprocess; /etc/init.d/myprocess start'" ...
> 
> When process will fail (even if pidfile will be empty), restart
> action which calls start will kill the process.
> 
> Martin
> 
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