Why can't I see the monit binary in the process list after starting it?

Question

I have monit running and working (I set up a dummy warning that is getting sent), but I don't see any binary called "monit" in the process list. Furthermore if I sort the processes by newest process, the only things I see are the processes relevant to monit sending out emails — I don't see the monit binary itself.

more info

I installed it with apt-get monit

I started it with service monit start

# ps -ef | grep monit
root     29985 23882  0 02:07 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto monit`

Answer 1

It sounds like you didn't start it in the background. Uncomment the following line in /etc/monit/monitrc:

## Start Monit in the background (run as a daemon):
#
set daemon  120           # check services at 2-minute intervals

to run it as a daemon. Restart Monit and verify with ps, you will see something like this:

$ ps -ef | grep [m]onit
root      8530     1  0 09:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/monit