[mythtv-users] Restarting the backend from the frontend

Bill Omer bill.omer at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 20:45:03 UTC 2007


On Nov 8, 2007 3:17 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007 1:22 AM, Rossco <rossco at whyza.net> wrote:
> >  I recently installed monit
> >
> >  it does exactly as I need after I configured it...it check for a running
> > mythtbackend process every 20 secs, and if mythtbackend crashes, monit will
> > restart it.
> >
> >  max down time 40 secs
>
> lucky, I installed monit, and as far as i can tell its configured
> properly, it just doesn't want to restart mythbackend when it
> crashes...
>


I use this in a crontab running every minute.  Short, sweet, and works.

#!/bin/bash

  if ps auwfx | grep mythbackend  | grep -v grep

      then
          echo "its up"

      else
          echo "its down ... "
          #echo "Restarting mythbackend on `date`" | mail -s
"mythbackend failed" bill.omer at gmail.com
          /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart

  fi


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