[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: monit change request

[Bryan Harris]

Interesting re: the restart command.  I think it's fixed by using
"monit quit" for the implementation of /etc/rc.d/rc.monit stop ---
i.e. more like what the upstream authors would do.  It's instantly
restarted on my machine when I do restart (using rc.monit script from
my last web form submission to SBo).

Can you test if it still behaves that way with the latest/current SBo package?

V/r,
Bryan

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Thomas Morper <thomas at beingboiled.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>
>> I can't help but think that this is a little bit poor design from the part of
>> the Monit development team. What is the point in having a fully configurable
>> config file name and location, if half of your software is hard-coded to use a
>> particular config file name and location?
>
> There's nothing wrong or even unusual with monit's design in that respect.
> If you want to use the command line switch to specify a config file
> location other than the default you have to specify it each time.
> Otherwise "monit $command" simply can't know how to talk to the daemon
> started with "monit -c /i/want/this.conf".
>
> The -c option is propably more useful for testing and development, i.e.
> without affecting your running instance you can test a monit config file
> for syntax errors and then deploy it somewhere else.
>
>> The other problem I have with monit at the moment is that if you do
>> /etc/rc.d/rc.monit restart, most of the time this will kill the daemon
>> completely. What appears to be happening is that monit is taking a long time
>> to shut down - which means the start command is attempted while it is still
>> shutting down - so it never starts again.
>
> I can confirm this. It seems to be connected to the event notification,
> i.e. shutdown takes as long as is takes to send an e-mail + overhead, but
> I'm not entirely sure. A "sleep 4" between stop and start solved this for
> me so I didn't investigate any further.
>
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