Re: restart command for monit?

[mjimenez]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 05:51:42AM -0700, Adam Beguelin wrote:
> Monit supports commands like:
> 
>       start program = "/etc/init.d/crazyd start"
> 
> But it doesn't support:
> 
>       restart program = "/etc/init.d/crazyd restart"
> 
> I have a daemon that expects a restart command so it can gracefully shut down 
> the running process, then start a new one.  Restarting via start/stop doesn't 
> do the right thing since it starts a new daemon while the old one is still 
> running. 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get around this?
> 
>       Regards,
>       Adam
> 

Excuse me if I don't understand the scenario but, are you sure that monit is 
the rigth tool for this task?

This "restart procedure" that the daemon needs, is associated with a
failure condition of the daemon, to be managed by monit?

(Looks like a faulty daemon)

Anyway, you are free to define the stop/start monit programs, maybe you can
write two scripts for the tasks
- /home/adam/adam-stop: performs a '/etc/init.d/crazyd restart'
- /home/adam/adam-start: does nothing

Or maybe you can use a rule like
... then exec '/home/adam/custom-restart.sh'


Regards

M.