[monit] Start/Stop Program Calls in Monitrc

[bggy]

Hi, I am switching to Monit from God because God leaks badly (haven't checked
out their new release which supposedly fixes much of the leaking). To test
out Monit I am setting it up on my dev machine (Mac OS X).

God can be configured with calls such as:

start = "starling -d -P #{RAILS_ROOT}/log/starling.pid -q #{RAILS_ROOT}/log/
-p 22122"
stop = "kill `cat #{RAILS_ROOT}/log/starling.pid`"

With Monit, I'm configuring monitrc with the following to start starling:

with pidfile /full/app/directory/log/starling.pid
start program = "/usr/local/bin/starling -d -P
/full/app/directory/log/starling.pid -q /full/app/directory/log/ -p 22122"

This works and starling starts up. But, the following call to stop starling
doesn't work:

stop program = "/bin/kill `/bin/cat /full/app/directory/log/starling.pid`"

Is there a way to make system calls like the above in the monitrc file?


I am also unable to start workling with the following:

start program = "/full/app/directory/script/workling_client start"
stop program = "/full/app/directory/script/workling_client stop"

My configuration to start ultrasphinx also does not work:

start program = "/usr/bin/cd /full/app/directory/ && /usr/local/bin/rake
ultrasphinx:daemon:start"
stop program = "/usr/bin/cd /full/app/directory/ && /usr/local/bin/rake
ultrasphinx:daemon:stop"


Is there a way to make system calls like these in monitrc?


Thank you,
John



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