RE: start but no stop wanted

[Sennott, Mark]

The better way to do that is with groups. 

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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:15 AM
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Subject: Re: start but no stop wanted

The main reason I don't want it to stop is that I do want to be able to
do

monit stop all

to stop all the processes it is monitoring (a long list) but some should
not actually stop

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> On Behalf Of Nick Upson
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:08 AM
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> Subject: start but no stop wanted
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> I'm trying to setup a config where monit watches a process and starts 
> it on failure but does not stop it.
>
> The config I have looks something like
>
> check process ntpd with pidfile "/var/run/ntpd.pid"
>    start program = "/opt/unb/bin/ntpd.sh start &"
>    stop program = "/bin/true stop &"
>
> the problems I have are:
>
> a) the start command takes ages before moving on to the next entry in 
> the file, even when ntpd is already running so there is nothing to do
>
> How long does it take when you run the command by hand? Time it like
> this:
>
> time ./opt/unb/bin/ntpd.sh stop
>
> b) the stop command is even slower
>
> Same as above.
>
> Also, why do you want it to stop it, if you said above that you didn't

> want it to stop it?  Also, what is the purpose of the &?  If it's 
> taking a long time it's hanging on something before that, otherwise it

> should drop you right back after it passes it's command.
>
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