# Generating monitrc file

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/generating-monitrc-file/133065>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [March 27, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/generating-monitrc-file/133065 "2008-03-27T12:00:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/generating-monitrc-file/133065/1 "2008-03-27T12:00:13Z")

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I am using monit to monitor my mongrel processes. It is tedious to  
have to write the monitc to watch, say, 20 instances, so I wrote a  
script to do generate monitrc. Now I want to modify the generator  
futther to look at the mongrel\_cluster.yml config to find information  
like number of mongrel processes, pid file location, etc. This seems  
like something anyone running mongrel cluster and monitrc would need,  
does it already exist and I’m missing it? If not, I can post what I  
have after I’m done.

thanks,  
Jeff

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**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/generating-monitrc-file/133065/2 "2008-03-27T16:16:49Z")

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I’ve not heard of it yet but it sounds like a great idea. Especially for  
those of us who are running multiple servers each with multiple  
mongrels!  
Could be a huge time saver.

Raul

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Subject: [Rails-deploy] generating monitrc file

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**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/generating-monitrc-file/133065/3 "2008-03-28T17:26:40Z")

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Doesn’t deprec support this?

Sebastian