Re: [monit] Monitoring processes without a pidfile

[Brian Downey]

On Jul 22, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Daniel Clark wrote
> The example script didn't work for me, because the service would fork
> off another process as part of becoming a daemon. The below ugly shell
> code seems to do the trick, but makes me think I should just use
> runit/daemontools for this after all...
<snip>
> CMD="$DIR/bin/logpp -d -r 5 -t www.example.com -l debug $DIR/etc/ 
> $ME.conf"

Did you try "exec" in front of the command?  That will let the child  
inherit
the script's pid & environment upon termination.

-Brian