[mythtv-users] How do I determine mythfrontend status?

[Cedric Tefft]

Can anybody tell me how to (programatically) determine mythfrontend's 
current status?  Up to this point I have been redirecting mythfrontend's 
output to a file and then just parsing the file for those 'Changing 
from...' messages, however there seems to have been a change in CVS 
recently that's causing log output to be buffered, so there's no telling 
how long it will be after a 'Changing from' message is generated before 
it actually shows up in the log file.

Thx,

- Cedric