Re: program entry

[Martin Pala]

Eduard San Anselmo wrote:

> Rory Toma wrote:
>
> > Is DAY running on it's own, or from inetd? If it's running from inetd,
> > you need to test against inetd.
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 08:48, Eduard San Anselmo wrote:
> >
> > > I have a problem with a program entry at the .monitrc file:
> > > let's say DAY is a program that returns the name of the current day 
> > > (original, eh?). How could I use monit to watch the right 
> > > functioning of the program? (imagine the program is working fine if 
> > > it returns something). The problem here is that DAY "only" starts, 
> > > becuse it stops by itself (i.e. doesn't need anyone telling it to 
> > > stop), and it doesn't create a pid file (the solution to this would 
> > > be use a wrapper script, as I read at the FAQ).
> > > So what am I supposed to do?
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> DAY will be sometimes running on its own (when somebody invokes it) 
> and sometimes from inetd, I mean, DAY is a generic program, with the 
> feature that it's not tcp/ip, so could I monitor it in any other way?
> Thanks

So your DAY program isn't daemon - it is just a binary and you want 
check if it returns what you expect when you call it - right?

Generaly you could monitor with the most simplest test if some daemon 
process with apropriate pid is running. Monit currently doesn't support 
testing of 'non-daemon' binary by executing it and checking its return 
code or returned data analysis. If this is your case, you will need to 
extend monit for your needs or make some other solution (for example use 
script running from cron that can make analysis of returned data and 
send alert in the case of problem).

Greetings,
Martin