is monit just a pain in the arse or what ?

[andrew taylor]

Normally, when I ask monit for status, I get this...

address@hidden:~# monit summary
monit: cannot read status from the monit daemon

This happens constantly and is frustrating and useless.



When I do get data, it tells me something like this...

Process 'rails_mongrel_9200' Execution failed
Process 'rails_mongrel_9201' Execution failed
Process 'rails_job' running
Process 'rails_mailer' Execution failed


uhh...not quite, if I ps, all the processes are running, all the pids 
are there, everything is fine.


When I ask monit to start/stop by group, it usually ignores me.


All these monit features, and to me, the basics are not even right.


I am running Ubuntu Feisty server with the apt-get monit installed, so I 
did not screw anything up in the build/install.