how to monitor gearmand daemon by Monit?

Question

So the configuration file for monitoring gearman server is:

set logfile /var/log/monit.log

check process gearmand with pidfile /var/run/gearmand.pid
    start program = "sudo gearmand --pid-file=/var/run/gearmand.pid"
    stop program = "sudo kill all gearmand"

    if failed port 4730 protocol http then restart

from monit.log

[EST Nov 26 19:42:39] info     : 'gearmand' start: sudo
[EST Nov 26 19:42:39] error    : Error: Could not execute sudo
[EST Nov 26 19:43:09] error    : 'gearmand' failed to start

but Monit says that process failed to start. Does anyone know how to make it work? Thanks in advance.

Has the process actually failed to start, or is it just Monit that can't detect that its running? Whats the monit output? — James Butler, Nov 25 '11 at 11:40
There is your first problem - monit does not appear to be able to run 'sudo', you need to investigate that first before worrying about anything to with Gearmand — James Butler, Nov 25 '11 at 15:12
did you succeed? would be nice to know if you have a solution and if yes, please describe it. — Stefan, Aug 23 '12 at 20:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '15 at 23:12

check process gearman_daemon with pidfile /var/run/gearmand/gearmand.pid
    start program = "/bin/bash -c '/usr/sbin/gearmand -d --job-retries 3 --log-file /var/log/gearmand/gearmand.log --pid-file /var/run/gearmand/gearmand.pid --queue-type libsqlite3 --libsqlite3-db /var/tmp/gearman-queue.sqlite3'"
    stop program = "/bin/bash -c '/bin/killall gearmand'"

how to monitor gearmand daemon by Monit?

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