[server-admins] MonIt

[Troy A. Griffitts]

In an effort to keep things running if I get hit by a bus, I've 
installed MonIt on the server.  It is an ancient service which simply 
allows simple regular checks and restart command if something fails.  
I've added one for swordweb under:

/etc/monit.d/

Feel free to comment and/or add your own.  Please consider that we might 
take a service offline for 5-10 minutes while developing or doing 
maintenance and the monitor SHOULD NOT trigger on those occasions, so 
write your rules accordingly.  As a template just use the swordweb 
monitor configuration which checks each minute and requires 20 failures 
over 30 checks to trigger a restart, which gives us ~20 minutes to do 
maintenance.

Hope this helps with some of the site-down issues we've seen recently.

Hope everyone is well.  I am sad to not have more time to join together 
in work with you more frequently, these days.

May the Lord bless our service for Him,

Troy