Re: Basic q's abt monit 4.5.1

[Martin Pala]

anuj agrawal wrote:
> Another basic doubt....
>
> MONIT wants the pid file(hence the pid of the process)
> of the process which it wants to restart.Now, the pid
> of the process is only generated when the process is
> up and running...hence if the process is already up
> then how does MONIT take the credit of starting the
> process???

If monit starts the process monitoring and the process referred to by 
the pidfile is already running, then monit will detect it and will not 
try to restart it.

In the case that the process pidfile changed between testing cycles and 
the process is realy running under new pid (for example because you 
restarted the service by hand), then monit will detect the change, send 
'pid changed' alert and continue to monitor the process (it will not try 
to restart it in the case that all tests passed).

Martin