comments from freshmeat

[Martin Pala]

 *Hi,
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recently few comments appeared on freshmeat's monit page:
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*[?] **init-like process spawning and a bit more*
by aldem <http://freshmeat.net/%7Ealdem/> - Oct 27th 2003 16:43:58

It would be nice to have a possibility to spawn non-daemons as well - 
exactly like init does.

Sometimes this is useful - and there is no need to specifically monitor 
pid files or something like this.

Also, this would allow use of monit as a replacement for init (and 
daemontools as well).

The dependency on "cycles" is not always good thing, i.e. there is no 
clean way to define intervals in "if N restarts N..." statement - it 
would be nice to have something like "if N restart within T 
minutes/seconds/etc...".

Optionally, would be nice to have custom actions for serveral levels of 
failures, i.e. - what to do on 1st failure, what to do on 2nd etc. 
failure (say, 1st time the service may be silently restarted, 2nd-5th - 
restarted and warning will be sent, 6th failure - a warning is sent and 
the service is stopped.

Want more ideas? :)
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Martin