Re: [monit] monit , monitor a procces without a pid file

[David Campbell]

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> Hy friends,
>
> Have a questions: monit can monitor a process without a pid file , but
> have a pid number?
> So let say have some process called test.
> If give the command ps auxww | egrep test and the result is
> root 4435 0.0 0.1 2332 148 ? Ss 06:33 0:00 test
> the pid is 4435,
> how can I put somenthing like that in monit conf file to check that
> program  test is working.It si possible to create a virtual pid file as
> result ps command? I have let say the stop and start commands....


If it's your process why not make the startup script write a pid file?

Dave