Re: Problems with depend

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

<address@hidden> writes:

> I'll check it out. I assume that running monit stop and monit start
> do the right thing? I may have forgotten to test the "restart" case.

When I use the setup 

 check apache (..) depend foobar
 check foobar (..)

and no process is running I get the following log output. It looks
like the depend process is not started first. I thought that if A
depends on B then the start order is first B then A? It also looks

[CET Nov  5 20:33:11] 'apache' is not running.
[CET Nov  5 20:33:11] stop: (sendmail) /home/hauk/bin/tst
[CET Nov  5 20:33:11] start: (apache) /usr/local/apache/bin/http
[CET Nov  5 20:33:11] start: (sendmail) /home/hauk/bin/tst
[CET Nov  5 20:33:11] Found 0 certificates
[CET Nov  5 20:33:14] 'sendmail' is not running.
[CET Nov  5 20:33:14] start: (sendmail) /home/hauk/bin/tst

If I change the order in the monitrc file to 

 check foobar (..)
 check apache (..) depend foobar

I then get the following listing when no processes are running.

[CET Nov  5 20:37:38] 'sendmail' is not running.
[CET Nov  5 20:37:38] start: (sendmail) /home/hauk/bin/tst
[CET Nov  5 20:37:38] Found 0 certificates
[CET Nov  5 20:37:41] 'apache' is not running.
[CET Nov  5 20:37:41] stop: (sendmail) /home/hauk/bin/tst
[CET Nov  5 20:37:41] start: (apache) /usr/local/apache/bin/http
[CET Nov  5 20:37:41] start: (sendmail) /home/hauk/bin/tst

In other words maybe some analysis should be done first before
atempting to start a process, to avoid the on-off-on start pattern,
and that the start order is according to the dependency and not the
order, entries was written in the monitrc file. It's probably going to
be much harder to implement B-) What do you think?

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland