Mike Pepe wrote:
Hi all,
I've just got monit up and running on my fedora core 3 system. So far it
seems to be running just fine.
I wanted to make sure that monit won't start a service that's been
manually shutdown. Services that have been stopped manually/cleanly
would be missing their lockfile. So I added a dependency such that if
the lockfile is missing, the service should be unmonitored. such as this:
check process freshclam with pidfile /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid
group freshclam
start program = "/etc/init.d/freshclam start"
stop program = "/etc/init.d/freshclam stop"
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
depends on freshclam_lock
depends on clamd
check file freshclam_lock with path /var/lock/subsys/freshclam
group freshclam
if failed uid root then unmonitor
if failed gid root then unmonitor
but, it doesn't do what I expect.
Sorry about the n00b question, but what am I doing wrong? I'm assuming
that if the file is missing that the gid/uid check will fail- perhaps
there's a better way to do that too.
The file test performs the existence check first - in the case that the
file doesn't exist, monit will perform the existence related action and
will not check the other file properties in this cycle (it makes no
sense to test e.g. uid in the case that the object doesn't exist).
To gracefuly stop the process which is under monit's control, you should
use 'monit stop freshclam' - monit will stop the process and disable its
monitoring. This should be used even in scripts such as logrotate, etc.
Martin
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