Re: How can I keep monitoring a Zombie process?

[Martin Pala]

Should we allow further monitoring? It can be probably better (more 
flexible).

What do you think?


Martin


Martin Pala wrote:
> Yes, the idea behind it is that the zombie process is usually unmanageable.
>
> Monit thus sends alert and stops the zombie service monitoring.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
> MosheC wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have the following line   check process xxx with pidfile 
> > /home/moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid
> > Process xxx occasionally becomes a zombie but a new one is created
> > automatically.
> >
> > The problem is that monit automatically stops monitoring the process 
> > when it
> > zombies.
> >
> > I have also tried to trick Monit to think it can restart the process 
> > itself
> > with:
> >    check process xxx with pidfile /home/moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid
> >         start program = "/bin/true" ###
> >         stop program = "/bin/true" ###
> > but that didn't help either.
>
>
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