Re: How to monitor a process, which should not run

[Martin Pala]

Hello,

you can use "check program" to trigger action if the program exists, something 
like:

        check program myprocess with path "/usr/bin/pgrep mypattern"
                if status = 0 then exec "/my/script"

The pgrep returns 0 if some process matched => monit will execute script in 
such case.

I have also created new feature request for simple native process existence (in 
addition to existing "if does not exist" statement), so we may implement this 
in the future: 
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/issue/171/support-if-exists-then-for-testing-that


Regards,
Martin


> On 11 Mar 2015, at 13:47, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m wondering if it is possible to watch for unwanted processes. I need to 
> know, if a process is running, which shouldn’t run.
> 
> Is this possible with monit?
> How would the config look like?
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Michael
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