Re: Before I fix this

[Sean Penticoff]

you can set a delay for startup in monit

## Start Monit in the background (run as a daemon):
#
set daemon  120              # check services at 1-minute intervals
with start delay 240        # optional: delay the first check by 
4-minutes (by


we have a service that runs on first boot that does stuff like updates 
and time sync and it disables itself as a last step so you could do 
something like that.

</etc/init.d/myfirstboot>
#!/bin/bash
# myfirstboot updates then reboots
# chkconfig: 2345 11 20
# description: long description

case "$1" in
  start)
    /bin/puppet agent -t
    /bin/yum -y update
    /sbin/ntpdate -u time.nist.gov
    /sbin/chkconfig myfirstboot off
    /sbin/reboot
  ;;
  stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload)
    # do nothing
  ;;
esac