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monit package

  1. Bug #1277655
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1277655

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agent 8131 (agent-8131) wrote :

Easy to reproduce. Here's syslog-ng on Ubuntu 12.04:

monit/conf.d/syslog-ng:
check process syslog-ng with pidfile /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
  start program = "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng start"
  stop program = "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop"

make sure monit status is running

echo > /var/run/syslog-ng.pid

Wait for monit to notice, then logs fill with:
monit: Error reading pid from file '/var/run/syslog-ng.pid'

Not the best example because syslog-ng will notice the empty pid file and start a new instance so this will not fill the logs entirely but any application that does not actively check the state of its PID file will.