Re: Distinguish crash vs normal restart

[Tino Hendricks]

Does the application leave a pid-file behind in case of crash? Then I would go 
for that.


> Am 03.06.2016 um 08:10 schrieb Ani A <address@hidden>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I want to run a script when Monit detects that my application has
> _crashed_ (not normal restart) more than 4 times in a given duration.
> I saw the following post which uses a temp file hack:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18475834/monit-how-to-identify-crashes-of-a-program-instead-of-restarts
> 
> Is this the only/preferred way? or is there a way to distinguish between 
> normal
> restart (via SysV service restart, in my case) vs crash
> [assert()/abort()/exit(!0)] ?
> 
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> Regards,
> A. Aniruddha
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