php-fpm process does no longer show version

[Freddy]

After updating PHP from version 8.3.13 to 8.3.14 on a DirectAdmin 1.671 system the process list ps -A no longer shows a PHP version. I used this to check if all service are running correctly in my system monitoring system.

I did a check like this:

pgrep php-fpm83

And it would report the process id's. After the update this command does not show any processes. Instead, I should check PHP like this:

pgrep php-fpm

But this messes up my monitoring system since my checks are based upon the service file from DirectAdmin: /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/services.status
And that says php-fpm83

Why did this minor update changed the PHP process?

 

[fln]

We no longer annotate PHP version binaries with the release suffix, to stay closer to clean PHP installs. The names in inside the data/admin/services.status file does not match the binary names reported in the process list, for example - mariadb, clamav, even named on Debian systems.

I would recommend you to update your monitoring scripts to instead check for the service status reported by systemd. For example systemctl status php-fpm73. If you do not need detailed output you can check only the exit code of systemctl --quiet is-active php-fpm83.

# systemctl --quiet is-active php-fpm83.service && echo "yes it is running" || echo "no it is dead"
yes it is running
# systemctl --quiet is-active php-fpm99.service && echo "yes it is running" || echo "no it is dead"
no it is dead

 

[Freddy]

We no longer annotate PHP version binaries with the release suffix, to stay closer to clean PHP installs. The names in inside the data/admin/services.status file does not match the binary names reported in the process list, for example - mariadb, clamav, even named on Debian systems.

I would recommend you to update your monitoring scripts to instead check for the service status reported by systemd. For example systemctl status php-fpm73. If you do not need detailed output you can check only the exit code of systemctl --quiet is-active php-fpm83.

# systemctl --quiet is-active php-fpm83.service && echo "yes it is running" || echo "no it is dead"
yes it is running
# systemctl --quiet is-active php-fpm99.service && echo "yes it is running" || echo "no it is dead"
no it is dead

Until this update all names inside services.status did match processes on my servers. I use MariaDB but the services file tells me the process is called mysqld.

But I do think your solution is more robust, so I will change my script to use systemctl.