Re: frustrated monit not executing processes

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

There must be something in the '/usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails' script  
that expect /usr/local/bin/ to be in the PATH, which it isn't when  
monit execute. Looks like mongrel_rails calls itself without any path  
prefix.

This is easy to test, just export this path to the shell, which is  
the PATH monit sets "export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin" and  
see if /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails now works, it should not. You  
need to remove the link "/usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails  -> /usr/bin/ 
mongrel_rails" if you actually want to do the test.

To solve this, the trick is either to set the link as you did or  
better, add extra PATH info to the mongrel_rails script. Assuming its  
a ruby script put something like this at or near the top of the script.

ENV['PATH'] = "#{ENV['PATH']}:/usr/local/bin";


Best regards
--
Jan-Henrik Haukeland


On 28. aug. 2007, at 05.44, Michael Steinfeld wrote:

> well maybe this is an env issue, however why would that matter if I
> explicitly setting the path to mongrel in my monitrc
> "/usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails etc.."
>
> I completely understand up setting env variables, but it makes no
> sence to me when you explicitly set the path.
>
> hmpf
>
> On 8/27/07, Alexey Verkhovsky <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 8/27/07, rory <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Sounds like a path/environment problem to me.
> >
> > Ditto. /usr/local/bin is not on PATH in RHEL 4.
> >
> > Michael: have you heard of / tried the RubyWorks package (link in the
> > sig)? It's just what the doctor prescribes for RHEL 4, even if I say
> > so myself.
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