Re: [monit] Capturing a monitored processes stdout and stderr

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

This is not possible now. I'm working on implementing script support  
for monit and while doing that will also add  support for piping  
stdout and err from a executed program.


On 1. juli. 2008, at 23.31, Dave Paper wrote:

> Greetings Monit Peeps,
>
> As a recent convert to monit, I have to say I'm happy with it.
>
> Is there a way to have monit capture text sent to stdout and stderr  
> for a spawned process?  I've looked through the monit manual, and  
> through all of the example configs on the monit site, and haven't  
> found what I'm looking for yet.
>
> I've found that during the step of getting a new process into monit  
> (like, say, a jboss process), not being able to see the processes  
> stdout and stderr output is really painful.
>
> Idealy, I'd like to be able redirect the stdout file descriptor to a  
> log file, and the stderr file descriptor to a different log file,  
> and do this for each process.  For a host running 10 or 20 different  
> processes, this would help A LOT!
>
> Thanks,
>
> -dave