Problem stopping services

[Benjamin Krajmalnik]

I am having a strange issue stopping a group of services (daemons written in PHP).

OS is FreeBSD 8.1, monit version is 5.2.4.

 

I have tried various approaches.

I tried running it through a stopdaemon.sh which looks as follows:

 

#!/bin/sh

#stop a php daemon

mydaemon="$1.php"

killstring="/bin/ps -aux | /usr/bin/grep ‘php $mydaemon’ | /usr/bin/grep -v stopdaemon | /usr/bin/grep -v grep | /usr/binawk ' {print \$2}' | /usr/bin/xargs /bin/kill -s KILL && sleep 10"

eval $killstring

 

Running this from the command line works fine.  Running it from within monit fails – not sure why.

Checking the processes which run as the stop script is called I see the following, which indicates it was called properly and with root access:

 

root      61480  0.6  0.0  8264  1784  ??  S     5:28PM   0:00.01 /bin/sh /root/stopdaemon.sh staledaemon

root      60597  0.0  0.1 99664 21116  ??  Ss    5:27PM   0:00.03 /usr/local/bin/php staledaemon.php

root      60598  0.0  0.1 99664 21200  ??  I     5:27PM   0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/php staledaemon.php

root      61620  0.0  0.1 99664 21204  ??  S     5:28PM   0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php staledaemon.php

 

Launching the script from the command line works fine.  Any ideas will be deeply appreciated, since it is critical that I be able to stop the processes.

I monitor the number of processes which are running, and if they fall below a certain level I need to restart the service, since each process in the service has its own functionality.

 

Any assistance will be deeply appreciated.