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From: Michael Fischer <mfischer@zendesk.com>
To: unicorn list <mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: Issues with PID file renaming
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:54:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABHxtY73qfZCHVW3VCW2ghRHgSoGSmVRMzfuqEeSQcxnnjfD5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A7995B.7010905@gentoo.org>

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:

> At least for pid based monitoring tools it is (I do agree with others
> that you should also be monitoring http though). For example monit
> requires that you give it a pid file. Why is it wrong for them to point
> to the same pid?

Monit doesn't require a pid, never has:

http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#connection_testing

To answer your question, though, the reason the pid files must contain
different PIDs is that the two processes (previous and
current-generation masters) have different PIDs.  And some of us do
care that they differ :)

--Michael
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-26  1:00 Issues with PID file renaming Jimmy Soho
2013-11-26  1:20 ` Eric Wong
2013-11-26  1:40   ` Michael Fischer
2013-11-26  2:07     ` Eric Wong
2013-12-10 12:46   ` Petteri Räty
2013-12-10 19:52     ` Eric Wong
2013-12-10 22:44       ` Petteri Räty
2013-12-11 13:54         ` Michael Fischer [this message]
2013-12-12 19:15           ` Petteri Räty
2013-12-12 20:51             ` Eric Wong
2013-11-26  1:42 ` Michael Fischer
2013-11-26  4:55   ` Jimmy Soho

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