Re: [monit] Character Limit in Start | Stop Program Directive?

[Damien Bargiacchi]

Start up a bash session as the user that runs monit (usually root).
Run the next little one liner. It sets up the environment to emulate monit.
   for var in `env|cut -d '=' -f1`; do unset $var; done;export
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
Now copy-paste the start directive.

Does that still work?

   ...Damien

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Christopher Opena
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all, I've been doing some fairly intensive testing of using monit to
> test out multiple applications on my server.  Each of the specific services
> I'm monitoring uses a "/bin/bash -c '/path/to/script -d'" as the Start
> execution.  I've noticed in testing that when I stop one of the services, it
> starts up automatically.  The other one doesn't.  The monit log shows it
> attempting to start the service, but it fails.  I've double- and
> triple-checked the Start directive to make sure that I didn't make any
> syntax errors, and even copied the contents of the failing Start directive
> out into my bash session (that works fine).  The only difference I can see
> is that the path to the failing script is very long.
>
> Is there a character limit of some kind on the Start directive that I'm not
> aware of?  I tried checking the Monit manual and it doesn't mention any
> character limit of any kind.  Below I'm pasting the contents of the two
> Start scripts (with directories in Xs just so you can see the script length
> without revealing too much).
>
> --Successful Script--
> start program = "/bin/bash -c 'cd /xxx/xxxxx/xxx/xxxxxxx;
> LOCAL_VAR=xxxxxxxxxx /xxx/xxxxx/xxx/xxxxxxx/xxxxxx/xxx start -d'" as uid
> my__uid and gid my__gid with timeout 60 seconds
>
> --Failing Script--
> start program = "/bin/bash -c 'cd
> /xxx/xxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxx; LOCAL_VAR=xxxxxxxxxx
> /xxx/xxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxx/xxx start -d'" as uid my__uid
> and gid my__gid with timeout 60 seconds
>
> I've also checked to make sure that directory ownership was the same on the
> two different log directories that the scripts write to - no problems
> there.  I'm quite at my wits end to determine why one works and the other
> one doesn't - and they starting the exact same script for different apps on
> the same server!  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris.
>
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