[mythtv-users] backend monitoring scripts?
Leo Kliger
lkliger at bigpond.net.au
Sat Dec 9 23:01:14 UTC 2006
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>
> Try using /etc/inittab. <man inittab> will give you some hints. After
> updating the inittab file, execute <telinit q> or reboot the system. My
> inittab has these entries, which will re-start any of the processes if
> they exit, and they are launched in run levels 2, 3, 4 & 5 (Ubuntu
> system). Make sure the process does not run in the background, or it
> will be continually re-launched and cause all sorts of trouble.
>
> #
> # MythTV stuff
> mtvb:2345:respawn:su - mythtv -c "mythbackend -l /var/log/mythtv/backend"
> mtvl:2345:respawn:su - mythtv -c "mythlcdserver -l
> /var/log/mythtv/lcdserver"
> mtvd:2345:respawn:su - mythtv -c "mtd -n"
>
Thanks Rob, I had considered something like this, but sometimes you do
want to shutdown mythtv for one thing or another....
setting it to respawn in all run level could make a hard thing to do;)
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