[mythtv-users] Start Mythfrontend if not running?

Daniel Sheppard daniels at pronto.com.au
Fri Dec 17 06:11:08 UTC 2004


When I had problems with the frontend crashing, I just ran it like so:

while echo Restarted; do mythfrontend; done

This will just run mythfrontend in a loop forever. Problem is that you
can't exit it without launching a second terminal and killing the
process, but I was running a dedicated box, so I saw no need for closing
mythfrontend.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Chris Lynch
> Sent: Friday, 17 December 2004 2:51 PM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Start Mythfrontend if not running?
> 
> I currently have MythTV running on FC3 pretty well now, but 
> every once in a while I'll come to find that the frontend has 
> crashed back to the desktop.
> I'm looking for an easy way to get the frontend running again 
> - either by:
> 	1 - A process that "pings" to check if the frontend is 
> running every n interval and starts it automatically
> 	2 - A remote button (the former is most preferable).
> 
> I'm a linux newbie and while I'd know how to do this under 
> Windows, I have no idea under linux.  Does anyone have any 
> good directions on how to accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
#####################################################################################
This email has been scanned by MailMarshal, an email content filter.
#####################################################################################


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list