[mythtv-users] is there an easy way to reboot in software through myth

[Ryan Kremser]

John, you speak of what is happening to me, As it is setup right now i
don't have a keyboard connected to the computer so i was looking for a
way to either restart mythbackend through the myth interface (as menu
option) or restart the whole system which i have been doing through a
ssh session from another room which was kind of a hassle.  The swatch
seems to be what would be perfect for me, any ideas where i could
learn more about it?


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:08:11 -0600, John Williams
<williamsbyron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure exactly what you're doing. How are you deleting these
> > recordings exactly? Are you deleting them by hand, or something?
> >
> > You should be able to delete recordings under the Manage Recordings
> > menu which deletes the files from disk and updates the mythtv
> > database. You certainly shouldn't need to reboot afterwards.
> 
> I can speak to what I've seen. If I delete a recording from the view
> recordings menu while a program is recording my backend crashes. If he
> is new enough not to know how to restart the backend then a reboot
> will be the only fix.
> 
> Yuo can restart mythbackend using (/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart)
> from the command line.
> 
> There is a log file monitoring tool called swatch that some people are
> using to monitor for the crash and restart the backend if it crashes.
> I haven't figured out where to put the entry to make swatch run at
> startup so mine isn't working. once I spend some time to figure this
> out I'll be better off. Right now I just am not deleting from the view
> recordings page, and especially during a recording.
> 
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