Then how does the exec and the start/stop scripts work with timeouts while maintaining the single thread system?
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <h...@tildeslash.com> wrote: > Well, this has been on our TODO list for years. It's also up on our priority > list at http://mmonit.com/monit/next/ It will require some changes to the > Monit check machinery which is why this has been postponed for so long. The > reason is that Monit poll each service and attributes in one thread and use > non-blocking i/o and timeout to ensure forward progress. To check execution > of a program or script it requires that Monit fork and execute the program, > wait for x seconds in a separate thread to see if the program has returned or > if an error has occurred in the program. Not rocket science at all, but some > work. The thing is, Monit is ripe for some code refactoring and we want to > wait with implementing this functionally until then. Unfortunately we never > seem to find time starting on refactoring though I have hopes later this > autumn. > > > On 31. aug. 2010, at 18.13, Larry Brigman wrote: > >> I have run across a case where the existing network tests don't work >> and would like to use exec as the test probe returning >> success or failure. >> >> The case is a process that is an XML service processor but we don't >> know which port it will be on until it is configured. >> The request is sent as XML in the header and the response >> is sent back in the body. >> Since the XML response can have multiple possibilities of both success >> and failure depending on the deployment >> the send/expect doesn't work very well. >> >> We already have some python scripts that provide a test of the port >> but we want to do an active monitor >> with start stop actions like monit. >> >> What would be the easiest way to get exec "script" into the DSL? >> >> BTW, I like the method of allowing a service without a pid file. This >> service does not have one. > > _______________________________________________ > monit-dev mailing list > monit-dev@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-dev > _______________________________________________ monit-dev mailing list monit-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-dev
