"start all" or "start name" arguments may be confusing

[Wang, Yongkun | Yongkun | BDD]

Hi,

I tried monit, it's a very nice software.

I think the "start all" or "start name" arguments may be confusing. 

At first I didn't notice that these arguments were for "non-daemon mode", I had thought the following command would start the monit process if it was not started:

$ bin/monit –c conf/monitrc –v start all

But monit just complained that the pid file did not exist and simply terminated.

I read the source and I found that when the "action" arguments are not null, the "Run.once" is set to TRUE, so the daemon won't be started.

Then I also found these lines in the document: 

"Arguments

Once you have Monit running as a daemon process, you can call Monit with one of the following arguments. …"

But people like me may not notice this information at the first glance.

I think maybe it's better to add more help information when monit finds that monit process is not running:

E.g. "Please run 'monit [-c monitrc]' WITHOUT action arguments"

Or add the following lines as a quick start in document:

Step 0: chmod 600 monitrc

Step 1: bin/monit [-c monitrc]

Step 2: bin/monit ACTIONs

Cheers,

Yongkun Wang