[Alastair Burt <address@hidden>] Monit - feedback

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

I remember we had a discussion on the mailinglist before about making
the monit pid filename configurable with a command option. I remember
I was against it at the time for whatever reason but it's never to
late to reconsidered, and the enclosed mail makes a strong point for
including such a feature.

If I remember correct, you already created a patch for this Christian?
I vote +1 for putting either your patch or the solution described by
the user here, into monit. What do others think?


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Jan-Henrik Haukeland


To: Jan-Henrik Haukeland <address@hidden>
Subject: Monit - feedback
From: Alastair Burt <address@hidden>
Date: 07 Nov 2002 22:24:54 +0100
Message-ID: <address@hidden>

Hi,

I like the monit program. It is a lot more solid than the bunch of Python
scripts I am currently using to keep my Zope servers up. I thought,
however, I should point out one area where I had a problem. I used monit as
a non-root user on two different machines that share a file system. This is
bad news in the current version of monit because both daemon processes
fight over the use of ~/.monit.pid file.

I have actually hacked my version of monit to append the hostname to this
file name. I will not bother sending a patch as I am not really a C
programmer and my code is certainly an abomination. Basically I used
'get_localhostname' to add the host name to the file created by
'init_files' in files.c.

--- Alastair

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Alastair Burt
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