Re: it scares me a bit...

[alex black]

hey vlada -

first a caveat, I'm just a user and haven't been on this list - on to 
my points:

> I do not agree the project must be added features all-the-time to be
> considered alive.

I agree completely with that. Many (simple) things I use suffer from 
constant development instead of pragmatic bugfixing and optimization.

> Please, always think hard before you accept new ideas, have
> no mercy. Get the lot of user feedback on the topic first. You may make
> one or two users happy with the feature, but things get more difficult
> for the rest of the community from that moment! Also newscomers will
> have it harder to read the docs, many more wont manage it...

I agree wit that as well - but at the same time I think my feature 
suggestion was accepted because it fits in well with what monit does - 
precisely because it has the capability to restart processes which do 
not respond properly to tests.

It's all very well and good if apache is running - but if something 
else has screwed up (either in code recently promoted, configuration, 
etc) then it's useless. The only way I can be satisfied that it is 
running correctly is to have some ability to test URLs - if those tests 
fail it's great to get a message from monit saying something like... I 
tried to restart apache to solve this problem but that didn't work - 
time for you to do something.

I think that belongs in monit, and I don't think it breaks KISS :) The 
whole point in my mind of monit is to ensure that services are working 
as expected. For many daemons that just means "is it listening" but for 
others I think it requires more sophisticated checks.

> Thanks for monit.

Yes thanks VERY much for monit. It has already saved me a lot of time 
and annoyance :)

_alex