[mythtv-users] mythbackend crashes

[Andrew Plumb]

Hi Matthew,

I tried your hack and it missed an event.  Looking at "man swatch", I
think you're missing the --tail-file option:

swatch --config-file=/etc/swatch.conf --tail-file=/var/log/messages &>
/var/log/swatch.log &

...is what I've just changed mine too.  Hopefully that works. :-)

Andrew.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:01:57 -0500, Matthew Conway <wr0ngers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Until someone figures out how to fix this, I came up with a hack to
> make it less of WAF destroyer.  Get and install the the "swatch"
> package, and configure it to use something similar to the following
> rule and run swatch as root at startup.
> 
> append to /etc/rc.local:
> swatch --config-file=/etc/swatch.conf &> /var/log/swatch.log &
> 
> create /etc/swatch.conf:
> watchfor /ivtv: needed/
>         echo
>         exec "/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart"
> 
> This way, at least you only miss a few seconds of whatever myth was
> recording when it choked (however long it takes for backend to restart
> and re-record).  For me this always seems to happen within the first
> 20 secs or so of the recording, and it doesn't cause a system hang
> like it does for some people.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Matthew Conway
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