Re: [monit] Need help restarting an app.

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:14:58PM -0700, SPAZ wrote:

> I have tried every vareation of the kill command and cannot come up with a
> working one.
> 
> check process Phantom_World with pidfile /mangos1/bin/mangos.pid
>    stop program = "killall -TERM mangos-world"

Using killall is a Really Bad Idea.  While on some platforms it will do
what you want here, and send the signal to any instance of the named
process, on others it sends a signal to all processes that the user can
signal.  Using it anywhere is just asking for trouble because one day
you *will* be logged in as root on a machine where killall kills
everything.

Better to write a small shell script with a different name that does the
job you want.

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