[mythtv-users] Backend constantly restarting

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/27/2009 02:13 PM, Michael Harnden wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 November 2009 12:56:03 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 11/23/2009 07:20 PM, Chris Dennis wrote:
>>     
>>> I reinstalled monit this evening, and suddenly mythtv kept restarting
>>> -- I didn't notice until I found this thread that the restart was
>>> happening  exactly every minute.  For now, I'll live without monit.
>>>       
>> How was monit set to monitor the backend's status?  I need to know so I
>> can try to figure out why monit is killing Myth.
> I haven't had the time to reinstall (family is hooked on Mythtv and isn't fond of down time), but 
> here is the config file I was using.

Thanks.

>  When I have time I will reinstall and report back.
>   

Chris's confirmation is good enough for me, if it's good enough for you.

> # Monit control file
> #
> # Comments begin with a '#' and extend through the end of the line.
> # Blank lines between program entries are ignored. Keywords are case
> # insensitive. All path's MUST BE FULLY QUALIFIED, starting with '/'
> #
>
> set daemon  30
> set logfile /var/log/monit.log
> set mail-format
>  { from: mike at XXXX.site}
> set alert mike at XXXX.site  # Send alert to system admin on any event
> set httpd port 2812 and
>     allow XXXX.site
>     allow 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
>     allow 127.0.0.1
>     allow admin:monit     # user 'admin' with password 'monit'
>
>
> check process mythbackend with pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>  #group mythtv
>  start program = "/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart"
>  stop program  = "/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop"
> # if failed port 6544 proto http then restart
>   

Does this mean the mythbackend check is commented/doing nothing?

>  depends on mysql
>
> check process mysql with pidfile /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
>  #group mythtv
>  start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
>  stop program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"
>  if failed port 3306 then restart

If so, would that mean that monit is restarting mysql over and over?  
(Ripping the MySQL server out from under Myth would cause problems.)

Mike