Re: MONIT Startup

[rory]

>
Starting from init should start monit after the startup scripts have run.
Now, if you have slow startup scripts, you could rework them so they don't
exit till the process is started.

> The trick is simply to start monit after all startup scripts has
> started, as mentioned here by Mark:
>
> http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/monit-general/2002-12/msg00001.html
>
>
> Russell Adams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm configuring MONIT to run on my Gentoo servers, and had a
>> question. I'm trying to use MONIT to keep certain critical processes
>> running at all times.
>>
>> I'd like MONIT to start with init, but not autostart the various
>> processes it should monitor. I'd like Gentoo's startup scripts to
>> finish loading everything, then MONIT start monitoring everything.
>>
>> There are a few reasons for doing this, but the biggest is how picky
>> Gentoo's startup/shutdown procs are for individual programs. It caches
>> everything.
>>
>> Is there a method to delay MONIT from starting active monitoring for 5
>> minutes after launch? Perhaps can i start MONIT in passive mode, and
>> then move to active? It would be bad for MONIT to start a service
>> before its been called in the startup.
>>
>> Or finally, should I just set all my services to monitor as manual,
>> and as the last thing in the Gentoo start scripts call MONIT to start
>> them? Would MONIT choke if they were already started when its called
>> with the start parameter?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Russell
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