preparing for release? - example correction

[Martin Pala]

Martin Pala wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have one question - there's lot of new functionality added to monit 
> and its long time since we released 3.0. Maybe it will be usefull to 
> release new version in few weeks, so i will concentrate to finalize it 
> and will not work on new features (for example ldap, snmp, probably 
> disk usage, etc.) until present functionality will be ready/cleaned.
>
> There are following issues yet:
>
> 1.) dependency stuff
> 2.) persistent 'process->do_validate' flag (to keep monitoring state 
> after configuration reload)
>
> I'm working now on dependecy stuff and i have maybe one wish - what 
> about to use 'depend' statement to declare "master" process, instead 
> of present "slave" processes?
>
> For example if we want to have apache dependant on running mysql, we 
> use with present syntax following configuration:
>
> -------8<--------
> check apache with pidfile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
>
> check sybase with pidfile /var/run/sybase.pid
>  depend apache
> -------8<--------
>
> what about:
>
> -------8<--------
> check apache with pidfile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
>  depend sybase
>
> check sybase with pidfile /var/run/sybase.pid
>  depend apache
> -------8<--------

I'm sorry there's the right form i wanted to ask about:

-------8<--------
check apache with pidfile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
depend sybase

check sybase with pidfile /var/run/sybase.pid
-------8<--------

> It declares dependency of apache on database using same statement but 
> with other meaning. It makes me sence to use it as outlined above, but 
> it is possible that you have other point of view :) I want finalize 
> the code with present syntax, but there is possibility to change it.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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