<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Kris B. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krisbee@krisbee.com" target="_blank">krisbee@krisbee.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> In defense of process monitors, I run one not because myth is unreliable,<br>
> but because it is so reliable that it may take several days or more<br>
> before<br>
> I notice it isn't running -- by which time I've missed a few of my wife's<br>
> favorite programs. Since I don't watch TV every night (or sometimes for<br>
> more than a week, even when home), I can't otherwise monitor the system.<br>
> Do you have any other suggestions if a process monitor isn't the<br>
> preferred<br>
> strategy?<br>
<br>
</div>George, what I do is ping the myth backend status page (a http: page,<br>
whether you use mythweb or not), and I find if it doesn't return<br>
anything, then I have monit restart the backend... this works better<br>
than just looking for the process because it takes into account if the<br>
backend has hung but not exited... at work right now, so I can't give it<br>
exactly, but I found it from a google search..<br>
<br>
The issue I had in the past was my old machine would hang the process<br>
once every few months, so shows would just stop recording but the<br>
backend was still running - when this happened the status page wouldn't<br>
work so that was the key to respawn the backend for monit.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--Kris<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br>
mythtv-users mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Kris:<br><br>Thanks. I'll poke around for a similar monitor, but if you get a chance, please post yours. I've not had an issue with the backend hanging, but the status page may provide a more reliable means for determining status.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">George<br></div></div>