[Mongrel] mongrel_cluster, start on boot, stale pids

[Jeremy Kemper]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:57:44AM -0600, Nate Vack wrote:
>  > I'm doing everything (everything!) via either monit (on linux) or SMF
>  > (on Solaris).
>  >
>  > Using a process manager is a good idea... and having only one
>  > 'production' way to start mongrel is generally a good thing, too :)
>
>  If only Mongrel/mongrel_cluster would work with daemontools/runit. Pid files
>  are evil.
>
>  (Maybe Thin will grow support for this;
>  http://thin.lighthouseapp.com/projects/7212/tickets/40-support-running-thin-under-daemontools-runit)

Mongrel works great with process supervision. We use runit
extensively; it has eliminated all the pidfile & deployment headaches
discussed here.

jeremy