Ubuntu – how to start monit daemon with all processes unmonitored

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it seems that by default starting monit the first time when there is no state file(my state file gets blown away on reboot) will start all processes in monitored mode. I want to start the daemon in unmonitored mode, then start up each processes individually using "monit start" commands.

i can't seem to find any documentation in monit on how to do this.

Best Answer

On Ubuntu there is a script that gets run as soon as monit starts if it exists.

/etc/monit/monit_delay

You can simply add a monit unmonitor all to this script. And all monitoring will get disabled basically as soon as the service starts.

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