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

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

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