[mythtv-users] how to determine if a frontend is connected (from bash on backend)

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:30 AM, dummy269 at comcast.net wrote:

> HI all,
>
> I am still trying to figure out why my backend keeps on rebooting  
> and I would like to "catch it in the act", but it only happens once  
> a day at random times.  Does anyone know what I can use to log what  
> the machine is doing?  I have recently made a script to run in cron  
> every minute to save the output from `top -b -n`.  I would like to  
> add more information to this as to if a front end is connected and  
> what it is doing.   Can anyone help how to determine this from bash,  
> or am I going about this the wrong way.

turn on verbose logging in the backend and frontend and check to see  
what's happening between them. If you need some lower-level  
diagnostics, you can run netstat and direct its output to a log file  
but I have no idea what any of that stuff means really. :)