Re: How can I keep monitoring a Zombie process?

[Martin Pala]

Yes, the idea behind it is that the zombie process is usually unmanageable.

Monit thus sends alert and stops the zombie service monitoring.


Martin


MosheC wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the following line 
>   check process xxx with pidfile /home/moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid 
>
> Process xxx occasionally becomes a zombie but a new one is created
> automatically.
>
> The problem is that monit automatically stops monitoring the process when it
> zombies.
>
> I have also tried to trick Monit to think it can restart the process itself
> with:
>    check process xxx with pidfile /home/moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid
>         start program = "/bin/true" ###
>         stop program = "/bin/true" ### 
>
> but that didn't help either.