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

[Craig Partin]

You can also use daemontools 

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

to monitor the backend and restart it.


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:31:05 -0400, Paul Pick <paul.pick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 put "su mythtv -c mythbackend" in the inittab marked as respawn.
> Then I added a menu item to mythfrontend to do a "killall mythbackend"
> 'cause sometimes (every week or two) the backend stops talking to me
> and this smartens him right up.
> 
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