Re: Problem with running monit from init and using 'kill -9' on linux

[rory]

I don't advocate using kill -9.

However, what if something happens and monit crashes in a similiar way?

Then when init restarts monit, it won't do it correctly.

> Rory Toma <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I've notice a problem with the http server, init and kill -9 on linux.
>> If I kill -9 the main monit process, the http thread is temporarily in
>> a defunct state, long enough to prevent it from restarting due to
>> binding to a socket already in use.
>
> How about using kill -SIGTERM this should gracefully terminate monit
> and close the http server socket connection properly. The problem with
> using kill -9 is that this signal takes down the process immediately
> without giving monit a chance to cleanup.
>
>> I suggest that I add a loop when starting that will try a few times
>> before giving up if we're in init mode.
>
> If 2 + 2 equals 5 I think it's better to fix the root cause instead of
> retrying until it equals 4 :-)
>
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> Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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