[mythtv-users] Trouble with monit

[Nick Morrott]

On 10/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I restarted the backend
>  fine, but the monit process won't start.  I start it and it says it
>  started, but when I immediately check it with "service monit status" it
>  says it's dead with subsys locked.

This is usually due to a service's stale pidfile which was left behind
when the process aborted. Check /var/run/ for monit's pidfile, delete
it, and then restart the monit service.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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