Re: [monit] check process restart not start?

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

yes, both start&stop programs are needed for automatic restart action.

The mentioned words 'with' and 'program' are optional "noise" words just to 
allow construct natural sentence  they are not required - see monit manual for 
complete list.

Regards,
Martin


On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:04 AM, Tim Howe wrote:

> So, bear with me as this is my first attempt, but I think the documentation 
> may
> not be correct..
> 
> I have a statement like so:
> 
> check process myproc with pidfile /var/run/myproc.pid
>  start program = "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/myproc start"
> 
> 
> When I kill the process to test monit, it does not start it but instead gives
> this message in the logs:
> 
>    monit: Start or stop method not defined -- process myproc.
> 
> 
> If I add a "stop program" line it works.  It seems this is because it is
> actually trying to "restart" not just "start" the process.  However, there is
> an example in the docs like so:
> 
> check process resin with pidfile /usr/local/resin/srun.pid
>    start program = "/usr/local/resin/bin/srun.sh start"
> 
> Which is pretty much what I am doing.
> 
> Also, in the docs it says:
>       "1. CHECK PROCESS <unique name> PIDFILE <path>
>           <path> is the absolute path to the program's pidfile. If the pid-
>           file does not exist or does not contain the pid number of a running
>           process, Monit will call the entry's start method if defined, If
>           Monit runs in passive mode or the start methods is not defined,
>           Monit will just send alerts on errors."
> 
> Which also suggests that only a start method needs to be defined.  The word
> "with" is also missing from that paragraph -- is it not needed or is that a
> typo?  I also see examples where "start" seems to be interchangable with 
> "start
> program"; are these different things?
> 
> I am using monit 5.1.1.  Is this a bug or am I blind to some syntax I don't 
> get?
> 
> --TimH
> 
> 
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