Hi,
I have a check on a process via a pid file that monit reported as up, when the pid was dead and I was wondering if there were any good tips for figuring out why. We're running monit 5.9. When I run a status, I can see my process listed as running and monitored:
Process 'recentnews-feed'
status Running
monitoring status Monitored
pid 9680
parent pid 1
uid 5005
effective uid 5005
gid 5006
uptime 1d 3h 20m
children 0
memory kilobytes 1805064
memory kilobytes total 1805064
memory percent 25.7%
memory percent total 25.7%
cpu percent 0.1%
cpu percent total 0.1%
data collected Fri, 19 Dec 2014 04:14:04
When I check to see if the pid is actually running, it's not there:
$ ps -ef | grep -i 9680
root 24520 24029 0 06:39 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i 9680
My monit config:
check process recentnews-feed with pidfile /var/run/recentnews-feed.pid start program = "/sbin/service recentnews-feed start"
stop program = "/sbin/service recentnews-feed stop"
if 50 restarts within 50 cycles then timeout
Again, just curious if this is a known issue in 5.9 or how to figure out why monit thought the pid was up when it was not.
Thanks,
Russ