Re: Is there a "real restart" command (not stop then start) ?

[Noel]

Thanks.  I appreciate how monit and m/monit are continually
improved. Looking forward to the updates.



  -- Noel Jones

On 1/16/2013 2:41 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> I agree and we have started on implementing restart. It is 50% done. Parser 
> is done, but the actual executing of the restart command is not implemented. 
> We got stuck a little bit there because we have to consider the dependency 
> graph and how to handle restart as a single command. I also want to refactor 
> and simplify how dependency is implemented in Monit, because how dependency 
> works now is that we first run stop and then start on depending services. The 
> use-case for this behaviour is mentioned in the manual, but it is not really 
> how dependencies should work.
>
> At the same time we really need to release M/Monit 3.0 now and we're focusing 
> on that, but once that is done we'll start working on Monit again and finish 
> stuff like this.
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Noel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'll second the request for an optional "restart program" definition
>> that would be used instead of stop && start when a restart is
>> triggered.  If "restart program" is defined, use it; otherwise use
>> the current stop then start.
>>
>>
>>  -- Noel Jones
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/16/2013 2:19 AM, Jérémy Lecour wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been using Monit for some years and I've always be happy with it. 
>>> Thanks for making this great piece of software.
>>>
>>> Lately I've been using some services that accept different "actions" than 
>>> start and stop, for example a USR2 signal to do a rolling restart (just 
>>> like a "reload").
>>> An example is the Unicorn application server (in Ruby).
>>>
>>> I monitor the different master processes with Monit, but I can only do 
>>> "start" or "stop" but nothing else.
>>> So if I want to do a rolling restart, I have to log into the server and 
>>> send the signal.
>>>
>>> It would be great if we could define custom actions.
>>>
>>> Jérémy Lecour
>>> Conception et développement d'applications web
>>> http://jeremy.wordpress.com - http://twitter.com/jlecour
>
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