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

[Geir Freysson]

I'm pretty sure your config file should include

user: deploy
group: deploy

And the deploy user should have the right permissions to access the
application and log directories. But if it's an issue with
permissions, the error should show up in the mongrel log files...

Geir.


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Stewart
<boss at airbladesoftware.com> 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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