You can use the "mode manual" statement which keeps the service in unmonitored state until "monit monitor <service>" is called.
Regards, Martin On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Marco wrote: > As the subject says, is it possible? I have a daemon that installs and > drops some files under /etc/monit.d (to restart the daemon if it > crashes). However, the program requires some manual configuration > before being started, and during this time monit should not attempt to > restart it. > > So far I can only think of: > > <add files in /etc/monit.d> > monit reload > monit unmonitor myservice > > but that seems to be racy as some times the "unmonitor" command fails > as monit hasn't read the new service definition yet; sleeping in > between isn't good either since monit may be able to start the daemon > during that time. > > Alternatively, I may change the installation routine so monit isn't > reloaded at install time, and edit the daemon's initscript so it > issues a "monit reload" just after the daemon itself has started, but > it doesn't look like the cleanest solution to me. > > Any help is appreciated. > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
