monit wrapper script to start a non-daemonized process like lita

.monitrc

  check process lita with pidfile /usr/local/var/run/lita.pid
    start program = "/full/path/to/litadaemonscript/litadaemon start"
    stop program = "/full/path/to/litadaemonscript/litadaemon stop"

litadaemon

#!/usr/bin/env bash
PIDFILE=/usr/local/var/run/lita.pid
LOGFILE=/usr/local/var/log/lita.log

LITA_PROJECT_DIR=/full/path/to/projectdir/

case $1 in
        start) 
                cd ${LITA_PROJECT_DIR}
                rm ${LOGFILE} # optional, remove old logfile
                exec lita start >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1 &
                echo $! > ${PIDFILE} # save spawned backround process' PID to PIDFILE
                echo "lita started with PID:"
                cat ${PIDFILE};;
        stop)  
                kill `cat ${PIDFILE}`
                rm ${PIDFILE};;
        *)
                echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}" ;;
esac
exit 0