A wrapper script to invoke the newrelic_resque_agent and capture it's PID for monit monitoring. Adapted from example 7.3.2 from http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_07_03.html.

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

LOGFILE=/var/log/newrelic/newrelic-resque-agent.log
PIDFILE=/var/run/newrelic-resque-agent.pid
CONFIGFILE=/etc/newrelic/newrelic_resque_agent.yml

 case $1 in
    start)
       exec 2>&1 /usr/bin/newrelic_resque_agent --config $CONFIGFILE run 1> $LOGFILE &
       echo $! > $PIDFILE
       ;;
     stop)
       if [ -a $PIDFILE ]; then
         kill `cat $PIDFILE`
         rm -f $PIDFILE
       fi
       ;;
     *)
       echo "usage:  {start|stop}"
       ;;
 esac
 exit 0