[mythtv-users] Trouble with monit
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun May 11 01:42:41 UTC 2008
On 11/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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?
Check for (and delete) /var/lock/subsys/monit.
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