[mythtv-users] monit on ubuntu not working...

[Steven Adeff]

On 7/17/07, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Andrew Williams <lists at nikdoof.net> wrote:
> > > >  start program = "/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart"
> >
> > Just to note, I changed this to restart instead of start as the Ubuntu
> > script checks for an existing PID file on startup, if mythbackend crashes it
> > leaves the PID, which in turns stops the startup from working... Possibly
> > whats happening to you.
>
> perhaps that's it. I'll give it a try.
>

that seemed to do it? I had to kill mythbackend (memory leak? it used
up all my swap space...) and a few seconds later it restarted!

-- 
Steve
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