Re: Monitoring multiple apps running under a non privileged user

[Tim Uckun]

Can monit be instructed to run the config file as a specified user?

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

You can use the "include" statement:

        include /usr/local/monit.d/*

If you'll split the configuration for the deployed processes to one file per process, you'll be to add/remove these include files automatically. You can also add check for the "include" directory timestamp ... each time you add/remove file from the directory, its mtime is updated, which you can use to reload monit automatically:

        check directory monit_includes with path /usr/local/monit.d/
                if changed timestamp then exec "/sbin/restart monit"

Note that if you'll have syntax error in new include file, monit restart attempt will kill it, as it will hit the syntax error => in the above exec action it'll be safer to use some simple script which will restart monit conditionally - check the syntax first (using "monit -t") and restart only if there are no problems, otherwise keep running and/or fire alarm.

Regards,
Martin

On 01 Oct 2014, at 00:51, Tim Uckun <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have the following scenario.
>
> We have multiple web apps owned by the deploy user  and running as the web user.  I would like monit to check each app directory for a monit.conf file (app/config/monit.conf) and process it as the deploy user.  When a new app is deployed I would like monit to notice this and run the config file. When an app is removed I would like monit to notice this and kill the processes started by that app (this is probably too much to ask).
>
> Obviously running monit via the users cron would do this but I am wondering if it's possible to do this using the daemon mode.
>
> Cheers.

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