[mythtv-users] Sleep timer

Jason Donahue mythtv at timekiller.org
Mon Feb 9 16:38:28 EST 2004


When I noticed mythbackend crashing, I supervised it. For those who
don't know what that is, visit http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

It works beautifully, I have not had to restart mythbackend since
installing this.

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:45, Paul Woodward wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Tom Jaeger wrote:
> > 
> > > is great because it stops at the end of the show. If I fall asleep
> > > watching live TV then it is crashed by the time I wake up in the
> > 
> > Probably better to fix the bug thats crashing it - I accidentally left
> > liveTV running all day a while back and was well impressed to find it
> > still happilly chugging away when I got home from work :)
> > 
> > You could always create a cron job that kills the frontend at a certain
> > time and set it up so the frontend restarts whenever it dies.
> > 
> 
> On a similar note, would it be feasible to run the backend in a loop so that it will auto restart if it crashes. Could this be done if the backend is auto started on boot (as per the mythtv docs).
> 
> Paul
> 
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