I'm using monit to handle a number of our services, and want to use it
for slon as well.  Here's the config I've created:

check process slony
  with pidfile /var/run/slony.pid
  start program = "/usr/local/bin/slon -p /var/run/slony.pid twistage
'dbname=twist_prod user=slony host=localhost' >> /var/log/slony.log &"
  stop program = "/bin/kill -TERM `/bin/cat /var/run/slony.pid`"
  group slony

Running "monit start all" works fine and the slon daemon starts up and
does its thing.  However I'm not able to stop slon.  monit just sits
for a while, and then says that it failed to stop slon.  If I run the
kill command myself from the command line though it works perfectly.
Not sure what the difference is - how can I make slon stop using
monit?

Pat