monitoring - Monit issues with mysql Ubuntu server 12.04

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I've installed Monit on Ubuntu server
12.04 but Im having issues getting mysql monitoring to work at all. Here is what I have
done so
far.

#/etc/default/monit
startup=1


#/etc/mysql/my.cnf
pid-file
            = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

#/etc/monit/monitrc
set
            daemon 60
check process mysql with pidfile
            /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
group mysql
start program =
            "/etc/init.d/mysql start" with timeout 30 seconds
stop program =
            "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"

if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 3306 then
            restart
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then
            timeout

The mysqld.pid
file is being created as expected but monit cannot access it. Here are the permissions
for mysqld.pid

-rw-rw---- 1 mysql
            mysql 6 2014-06-02 11:36 mysqld.pid
            

Here is the status
for monit

#monit
            status
Process 'mysql'
status not monitored
monitoring
            status not monitored
data collected Mon Jun 2 23:49:37
            2014

And here are the
errors Im seeing in the monit
log

Jun 2 23:47:07
            MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: 'mysql' process is not running
Jun 2 23:47:07
            MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: 'mysql' trying to restart 
Jun 2 23:47:07 MySQL-Dev
            monit[13034]: monit: Error opening the pidfile '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' --
            Permission denied
Jun 2 23:47:07 MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: monit: Error opening
            the pidfile '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' -- Permission denied
Jun 2 23:47:07
            MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: 'mysql' start: /etc/init.d/mysql
Jun 2 23:47:07
            MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: monit: Error opening the pidfile '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' --
            Permission denied
Jun 2 23:47:37 MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: last message repeated
            31 times
Jun 2 23:47:37 MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: 'mysql' failed to
            start
Jun 2 23:48:37 MySQL-Dev monit[13034]: 'mysql' service timed out and
            will not be checked
            anymore

Im
not sure what to do at this point and I have not been able to find anything online that
addresses my specific issue.

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class="normal">Answer

If you
run monit as root, it should be able to access this pid file. Please check if your not
running monit with another user.

#
            ps -eaf | grep monit
root XXXX 1 0 Jun20 ? 00:00:08 /usr/sbin/monit -c
            /etc/monit/monitrc -s
            /var/lib/monit/monit.state