[Mongrel] Rotating mongrel production logs

[Nate Vack]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Sean Brown <seanmichaelbrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Nate Vack <njvack at wisc.edu> wrote:

>  >  Why not ask monit to restart your mongrels? It seems kind of nice to
>  >  have monit be the only guy in town touching the processes it
>  >  monitors.... but maybe there's a technical reason why not?

> No technical reason.  Simply timing.  Monit wakes itself every X
>  minutes to check if processes are running, so there could be a delay
>  of up X minutes until the mongrel process was restarted.  The approach
>  in the logrotate restarts the mongrels immediately.  Interestingly,
>  monit does realize that the process ID for each mongrel has changed
>  and alerts of that fact, but since we know that will happen every
>  Sunday at 3:00 AM, we can safely ignore it.

I'm pretty sure that doing:

monit restart all -g your_mongrel_group

will wake monit up and have it restart your app before hitting its
timeout. This also avoids the worried emails from monit; ignoring 'PID
changed' messages from monit (even if you're expecting them) is a bad
habit to get into.

-n