[mythtv-users] Backend Watchdog??

Alexander Böhm babyfly at gmx.net
Tue Jan 23 09:13:50 UTC 2007


Sorry, jumped over the Posts ;-)

My script also does not check the current status of the backend, it only 
restarts if it crashs.
But the idea with the wget check on the http port is a nice one....

Try to include this, and Post if i get it working

Greets again
Alex

Dave Ansell schrieb:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Ansell" <dave at theansells.com>
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:06 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Backend Watchdog??
>
>
> Hi,
>
>      I'm a dedicated myth fan for nearly two years now.
>
>      My backend system has had several incarnations from Fc3 to Fc6 on two 
> different hardware platforms.
>
>     My only issue is that the backend service occasionally dies for no 
> aparent reason.  This has been the case in every incarnation to date, 
> whatever I try.   It doesnt happen often, but enought to be annoying and 
> reduce WAF etc.
>
>     I guess this behaviour is to be expected with any developing software. 
> However it strikes me that it would be relatively simple to set up an 
> independant process to monitor the status of the backend and kick it back 
> into life automatically if it dies.   (ie what I do now manually!)
>
>     I fully accept that the answer to how to do this may be trivial, but I 
> am light on linux skills so if someone could help me out I would be very 
> gratefull!
>
> many thanks,
> Dave 
>
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> Thanks for all the suggestions.   Plenty of options to try!
> cheers,
> Dave
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