Easy to reproduce. Here's syslog-ng on Ubuntu 12.04:
monit/conf.d/syslog-ng:
check process syslog-ng with pidfile /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
start program = "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng start"
stop program = "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop"
make sure monit status is running
echo > /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
Wait for monit to notice, then logs fill with:
monit: Error reading pid from file '/var/run/syslog-ng.pid'
Not the best example because syslog-ng will notice the empty pid file
and start a new instance so this will not fill the logs entirely but any
application that does not actively check the state of its PID file will.
** Changed in: monit (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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Monit fills logs when reading 0 byte pid file
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