Re: Intentionally stopping a daemon and preventing monit from restarting it

[Aleksandrov Artyom]

Hello,
You have to use monit command to start/stop/restart daemons to avoid
this causes.

try:
monit stop $daemon_name
monit -h

Best regards Artyom.
С уважением, Артём.



On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Martin Konecny
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just started using Monit to monitor a few of my daemons, and I'm very
> impressed with the simplicity. Good work! There is one thing that I'd like
> to do however, and I havent been able to find anything about it in the
> manual: What if I want to temporarily disable some of my daemons?
> Im running
> /etc/init.d/my-daemon stop
> which also removes the pid file. How do I prevent monit from restarting this
> process automatically?
> I figured the default behaviour would be that monit restarts the daemon only
> if the pid file exists. If it doesn't exist, we could assume that the
> program shutdown gracefully and the shutdown was intended.
>
> Do I have to disable monit and I want to temporarily disable my daemons?
> Here is my script:
>>
>>  check process airtime-playout
>>     with pidfile "/var/run/airtime-playout.pid"
>>     start program = "/etc/init.d/airtime-playout start" with timeout 10
>> seconds
>>     stop program = "/etc/init.d/airtime-playout stop"
>
> Martin
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