[mythtv] safe_mythbackend

Drew Whittle drew at lug.net.nz
Sun Feb 22 06:51:25 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 00:11, Robert Rozman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading about this problem and there is not only problem of
> restarting mythbackend. For pvr 350 (and maybe fot others) there could
> happen problems with drivers (ivtv for intance can loose clue) and then
> mythbackend needs not only restart but also reload of kernel modules for
> ivtv. Also some guy some time ago contributed script that detects zero
> length recordings, that are also sign of misoperation, although mythbackend
> is still running ...

I don't have driver issues, but I do run the backend under a set of
utils called daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html)

Yeah yeah I know I know, not true open source etc etc...

:D



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