[mythtv-users] Backend Crashes / Status Monitoring

[Graham Dunn]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:38:11PM +0000, David wrote:
> There's a bit of a writeup at 
> http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/StatusMonitoringHowTo
> 
> 
> There is actually a slight gotcha (I don't know if this applies to 
> daemontools too) : if the monitor is started *before* the backend 
> service is fully up and running then it can detect a failure and kill 
> and restart the backend needlessly. For this reason I've submitted a 
> patch to the Debian monit maintainer that helps fix this.

daemontools is responsible for starting the process, so you don't get
that scenario.

I've updated the wiki with some daemontools install / config info.

Graham