Eric Lindvall

I definitely think it should be a separate discussion. I'd be interested in talking about the sorts of errors you're talking about, but I'd rather if it was not mixed...

Nice! I agree the current logic isn't right. I think we could change the definition of [`pid()`](https://github.com/apinstein/god/blob/c61668e7b4a3c9f9fbe4caf1700b7aa6793eb540/lib/god/conditions/process_exits.rb#L31-L33) to something like this: ``` ruby def pid @pid ||= self.pid_file ? File.read(self.pid_file).strip.to_i...

You would have to do that via your local syslog server. God just uses the `syslog()` call to log locally to syslog.

You should definitely be using `w.env = { }` instead of putting environment variables on the command line. Also, the `w.dir =` directive is the right way instead of the...

Is anyone else still seeing these problems (where the file still exists)?

That makes a lot of sense.

Lots of people are still using god. Most of the people who are using it are still on 1.8, so I'm not sure of the state of the 1.9 support.

Interesting idea. Can you paste what the `w.start` command was?

I'm a little bit scared to change this, but it definitely is something that has hurt people in the past. Any opinions @mojombo, @jnewland, @tmm1?

I'm still running 1.8.7, so I am definitely interested in backwards compatibility.