Re: Distinguish crash vs normal restart

[Ani A]

> 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)] ?
>>

In my case the pid file isn't written by the daemon itself, its
created from the
init script (sysV /etc/init.d script)

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Regards,
A. Aniruddha