Debugging failed Monit tasksEdit

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Example of trying to debug a failure to start a Unicorn process for a rails user:

$ sudo -u rails -s # be the user that monit will try to run as
$ env -i PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin /bin/sh # emaciated environment like monit's
$ export # inspect environment
$ /bin/env PATH=/rails-user-home/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin \
  /path/to/bin/unicorn \
  -c /path/to/config/unicorn.rb \
  -E production

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