Re: PID file and restart only if not running for 2 cycles?

[Raphael Bauduin]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the config which you showed bellow is possible, it requires Monit 5.2 or 
> newer (latest is 5.2.4).
>
> The safe way is to disable monitoring during upgrade:
>
> 1.) monit unmonitor sphinx_searchd_myapp
> 2.) <perform upgrade>
> 3.) monit monitor sphinx_searchd_myap


ok, I was with 5.0.
thanks for the unmonitor tip! I'm discovering monit and wasn't aware of this.

Raph

>
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a web application running sphinx, which is monitored by monit.
>> When deploying a new version of the app, we stop sphinx, deploy the
>> new code and restart sphinx.
>> Sometimes monit restarts sphinx during the deployment of the new code,
>> and when the deploy procedure wants to start sphinx, it complains it's
>> already running. To solve this, I would like to tell monit to restart
>> sphinx only if it is not running for 2 cycles. I have not found a way
>> to do that (I've seen example when testing services by trying to
>> connect to the tcp port eg, but not for plain pid checks). Here's the
>> kind of config I'd like to use (though this is not recognised by
>> monit):
>>
>> check process sphinx_searchd_myapp
>>  with pidfile /var/run/sphinx/myapp.pid
>>  if does not exist 5 cycles then restart
>>
>> Is this kind of config possible with "check process with pidfile"?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> raph
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