[mythtv-users] Considering MythTV, curious about relativeWAF.

[James Armstrong]

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>>>Overall my wife is marginally happy. She is terrified to touch it
>>>because it crashes every time, well almost every time. So for me it
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> is
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>>>going to take time to get her more confident using it. Again, I
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> must
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>>>be the only dumbass on the list.
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>>Nah, I'm a dumbass too... just an inventive one :)
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>>FYI, my script is as follows;
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>>[root at mythtv bin]# vi checkbackend.sh
>>PROG=mythbackend
>>STATUS=`ps -e |grep $PROG |grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
>>if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
>>then
>>       ( /sbin/service $PROG start )
>>       `date >> /var/log/mythtv/restartlog.log`
>>fi
>>exit 0
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>>It's in /usr/local/bin and is scheduled in CRON to run every minute.
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>>Nice and simple.
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> If the backend happens to crash, do your frontends 
> automatically reconnect?  Whenever my backend crashes, 
> I need to tell my frontends to reconnect.
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I have a similar script that checks for the backend PID once a minute 
and if it is not there it restarts it. This was only because of the 
mythweb delete or reschedule that was killing my backend. Since cvs of a 
few weeks ago that problem has gone away along with (I think) a fix that 
lets the frontends reconnect without complaining.

- James