[LRUG] Monit fails to stop/start/restart Mongrel

[Alex Tomlins]

Try using the following as your command:

/usr/bin/env PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH mongrel_rails cluster::start -C 
/etc/mongrel_cluster/photocms.conf --clean --only 8002

I think the problem comes when mongrel_rails tries to spawn mongrel 
which also needs the path to ruby...  using env as above adds 
/usr/local/bin to the path so everything can find it...

hope that helps..
Alex

Andrew Stewart wrote:
> Hi El Rug,
>
> I have monit 4.10.1 running on a Slicehost Ubuntu box.  Unfortunately 
> I cannot figure out why it fails to stop/start/restart my Mongrels.
>
> I have a cluster of 3 Mongrels, running on ports 8000, 8001 and 8002.  
> They are (supposed to be) owned by the deploy user.  For this 
> exercise, I'm trying to stop and start the one on 8002, using monit's 
> web interface.
>
> Here's the stop program monit is trying and failing with:
>
> '/usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::stop -C 
> /etc/mongrel_cluster/photocms.conf --clean --only 8002'
>
> I can copy and paste that onto the command line, where it works 
> perfectly.
>
> Monit apparently runs with a lean path, which is why I added 
> /usr/local/bin/ruby to the start of the command above.
>
> Monit runs as root.
>
> Here's the mongrel_cluster configuration:
>
> ---
> cwd: /var/www/apps/photocms/current
> log_file: log/mongrel.log
> port: "8000"
> environment: production
> address: 127.0.0.1
> pid_file: /var/run/mongrel_cluster/photocms.pid
> servers: 3
>
> It doesn't specify user or group.  I tried to set the user to deploy, 
> but it turns out that you need to specify a group as well.  It looks 
> like the deploy user doesn't belong to any groups, so I tried to 
> create a deploy group and add the user to it -- but that didn't seem 
> to work.  Not sure why not, and I stopped pursuing this avenue.
>
> I'm running monit in verbose mode but it still won't say why execution 
> fails.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Andy
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