[mythtv-users] auto-restarting mythbackend

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Gary,

Friday, October 16, 2015, 7:46:38 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:
>> What are people doing about restarting mythbackend when it fails?

> I am curious as to how often you find it fails?  I cannot remember
> the last time (with 0.27) my BE has failed.  While there are almost
> certainly still bugs in the code, there was a lot of effort with 0.27
> to resolve the reported segfaults, and (using static analysis) fix
> possible (even if unlikely) failure paths.  I have seen systems with
> hardware issues where the BE has failed, but I believe that fixing
> the hardware is really the correct fix for that (the BE is just the
> canary in the coal mine.  Replacing the canary is not a good fix).
> _______________________________________________

In the past I had the mythbackend service regularly just disappear. No
logs, no nothing, so I created my check script and made it general,
because an other vital service has the same issue.
With mythbackend I haven't had it for a long time, but it doesn't hurt
to keep it in place.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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