multiple pids

[Marc Petitmermet]

Dear List Members

How should I deal with a pid file containing multiple pids? E.g. nfsd  
starts with 8 independent daemons. I grab the pids with the "pidof"  
command at start and write them to /var/run/nfsd.pid. This file  
contains now 8 pids, space delimited. As I have seen so far, monit  
cannot deal with such a pid file.

I could write 8 individual pid files but can monit deal with
"check process nfsd with pidfile /var/run/nfsd[1-8].pid"
or should I just write 8 times almost the same thing?

Regards,
Marc