Re: [monit] Can't restart monit

[Nicola Tiling]

Am 20.01.2009 um 22:27 schrieb Martin Pala:

> The root cause most probably is, that monit masks signals (including  
> SIGTERM) for critical sections. Freebsd's /etc/rc.subr routines  
> which are used by monit's rc script performs the restart by stopping  
> and starting the process. The stop is performed by sending SIGTERM  
> to the process. When Monit is in critical section, it can thus  
> ignore the SIGTERM signal whereas the rc script thinks that it  
> managed to signalize process to stop and will wait for pid to exit.


I think monit freezes. Today the last entry in /var/log/monit is from  
[ Jan 21 03:26:04]  and mmonit says "No report from monit. Last report  
was Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:24:03". The webconsole of monit itself is  
reachable, but no watched processes are clickable.

> It was fixed in cvs now - monit signal handlers are safe so we don't  
> need to block these signals at any time.
>
> You can get the code from cvs:
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=monit
>
> ... or wait for next version (release candidate) which should be  
> ready till the end of january.
>
>
> Thanks for report :)
> Martin


I will try the CVS version - thanks.

Nicola