[mythtv-users] Trouble with monit

Harry Devine lifter89 at comcast.net
Sun May 11 00:56:47 UTC 2008


Nick Morrott wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I looked but there's no pidfile (I looked for monit.pid).  It still says 
"monit dead but subsys locked" after I start it and check its status.  
Could it be under another pidfile name?

Thanks,
Harry



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