Re: [monit] Check process without pidfile

[Martin Pala]

You can either create wrapper as described in FAQ:
http://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/FAQ#pidfile

or you can use "check host ..." statement which can watch network 
services, for example:

  check host localhost with address 127.0.0.1
   start program = "/etc/init.d/ntpd start"
   stop  program = "/etc/init.d/ntpd stop"
   if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 123 type udp protocol ntp3 then restart

We plan to add support for monitoring of processes without pidfile 
requirement.


Martin


Nicola Tiling wrote:
> Hi
>
> Openntpd (ntpd from OpenBSD, also available for FreeBSD) doesn't write a 
> pidfile. They say:
>
> "We don't believe in pid files. Use pgrep(1) and pkill(1) instead, you 
> will never have stale info that way."
>
> Can I monitore that process (listening on port 123) without the pidfile ?
>
> Nicola
>
>
>
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