I'm trying to start a program (Resque) but it takes a bit of time before a pidfile is written. Thus, I think that Monit thinks the program hasn't started and starts one or two more programs before the before the pidfile of the first one is written.
How do I delay the time Monit checks again, just for this process? Or should I solve this in another way?
I've configured monit tests and alerts — but I want to make sure that everything in my alert stack (outgoing email servers, sms email gateways…) is functioning properly. Is there a handy way to fire off a dummy test alert?
When you monitor a process with Monit by its pid, like :
check process blop with pidfile /.../blop.pid
start program = "..."
stop program = "..."
you get an alert when the pidfile is changed.
How do you disable this alert? For example, if you only want to know when the process fails to be restarted.
I'm looking for a way to kill all processes with a given name that have been running for more than X amount of time. I spawn many instances of this particular executable, and sometimes it goes into a bad state and runs forever, taking up a lot of cpu.
I'm already using monit, but I don't know how to check for a process without a pid file. The rule would be something like this:
kill all processes named xxxx that have a running time greater than 2 minutes
How would you express this in monit?
Monit runs with root, but i don't want to start my processes as root.. like mysql, mongrel, apache..