Re: Unable to start program automatically

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

you can try to run monit in verbose mode using the -v option ... it 
should provide more info.

However, to perform process restart, monit requires the start and *stop* 
programs to be defined, thus you need to add some stop method, otherwise 
foo restart will fail, for example:

--8<--
  check process foo with pidfile /var/run/foo.pid
      start program = "/usr/bin/foo"
      stop program = "/usr/bin/pkill foo"
--8<--

(the manual start action doesn't require the stop program, thus it works)

Martin


Michel Krämer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm running Monit 4.5 on Debian 3.2 (sarge/stable). It's configured 
> properly to monitor lighttpd HTTP server. Now I want to add another 
> simple executable to monitor: /usr/bin/foo
>
> I run the following:
>  > monit -d 5
>  > killall foo
>
> After 5 seconds, monit notices that foo is not running. The syslog 
> contains the following:
>
> Jan 14 16:16:45 xxx monit[19441]: 'foo' process is not running
>
> After that monit does nothing. It does not start the process 
> automatically. I have to manually call "monit start foo" which works.
>
> My configuration file looks as follows:
>
> check process foo with pidfile /var/run/foo.pid
>       start program = "/usr/bin/foo"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Michel
>
>
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