[mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 02:33:54 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:01, James C. Dastrup wrote:
> >>Also, mythfrontend runs from a script which starts it in a loop. So if it
> >> ever crashes (which it rarely ever does), or if someone accidentally
> >> exits out of it (more likely), it starts right back up.
> >
> >Could you possibly post that script your're using to make the frontend
> > restart when exited/crashed? I've been just browsing around trying to
> > guess how to do it, but havn't really searched hard enough :). Thanks.
>
> Sure. Here it is.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #myth.sh
> #This script starts the MythTranscode Daemon and
> #start mythfrontend in a loop, in case it closes
> #
> sudo mtd -d
> while [ /bin/true ]
> do
>         sudo killall mythfrontend
>         sudo mythfrontend
>         sleep 2
> done

will this catch when mythfrontend crashes but X doesn't close out?

-- 
Steve


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