Monit can't find my processes!

[Mark Mellar]

Hi folks, 

I was wondering if someone here might be able to help me out with my current monit problem. I’ve dug through the docs and I can’t seem to find what I’m doing wrong.

I’ve thrown together a small test script for monit to monitor…

#!/bin/sh

FOOPID=/Users/marmel01/Documents/foo.pid

FOODATES=/tmp/dates

/bin/echo -n $$ > $FOOPID

echo 'restarting with '$$' as pid' >> $FOODATES

ls -l $FOOPID >> $FOODATES

cat $FOOPID >> $FOODATES

while true

do

    date >> $FOODATES

    cat $FOOPID >> $FOODATES 2>&1

    sleep 3

Done

 … and a monitrc file to go with it …

#!/usr/bin/monit -c

set daemon 10                   # interval between polls, in seconds

set logfile "/tmp/monitlog.log"

set pidfile "/tmp/monitpid.pid"

set statefile "/tmp/monitstate.state"

set mailserver <REDACTED>

set alert address@hidden

set httpd port 2812

    allow localhost

    allow 10.1.81.0/255.255.255.0

check process test with pidfile /Users/marmel01/Documents/foo.pid

      start program = "/Users/marmel01/Documents/monittest.sh"

      stop program = "/bin/kill $(/bin/cat /Users/marmel01/Documents/foo.pid)”

However, when I run, while the script seems to be executing perfectly well, monit won’t seem to recognise the fact!

Here’s an excerpt form monit’s log

[GMT Nov 19 12:39:30] info     : Monit daemon with PID 75079 awakened

[GMT Nov 19 12:39:53] error    : 'test' failed to start (exit status -1) -- Program /Users/marmel01/Documents/monittest.sh timed out

[GMT Nov 19 12:39:53] info     : Awakened by User defined signal 1

[GMT Nov 19 12:39:53] info     : 'test' monitor action failed

[GMT Nov 19 12:39:53] error    : 'test' process is not running

[GMT Nov 19 12:39:53] info     : 'test' trying to restart

[GMT Nov 19 12:39:53] info     : 'test' start: /Users/marmel01/Documents/monittest.sh

[GMT Nov 19 12:40:23] error    : 'test' failed to start (exit status -1) -- Program /Users/marmel01/Documents/monittesh.sh timed out

[GMT Nov 19 12:40:33] error    : 'test' process is not running

…

The pid file appears to be where it should be and is readable. I don’t know where to go from here.

I’m running the latest version of monit on Darwin.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mark.

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