[mythtv-users] how to get slaves to automatically reconnect to the master backend

[Tom Lichti]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Peter
Abplanalp<pta-myth at psaconsultants.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Tom Lichti<redpepperracing at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Peter
>> Abplanalp<pta-myth at psaconsultants.com> wrote:
>>> i am having an issue with my master backend rebooting for no apparent
>>> reason.  i also have 3 slave backends with tuners.  the problem i have
>>> is that when the master phantom reboots, all the slaves get knocked
>>> off and i end up with a system that has only 1 tuner.  this leads to
>>> recordings not being made due to lack of tuners.  i am trying to
>>> figure out why the master phantom reboots but until i do, is there a
>>> way to get the slaves to reconnect to the master automatically?
>>>
>>
>> My single slave auto-reconnects when the master becomes available. If
>> the slave mythbackend process crashes at the same time as the master,
>> then you will have problems. Is that what is happening in your case?
>
> no, i'm not.  the slave logs show nothing untoward and the slave
> processes are alive and well.  i'm glad to hear that this just works
> for you.  did you configure anything on the master or slave to get
> this to work?

Not that I recall. I think there is a timeout at some point, but I'm
not sure on that. If you gracefully shut down the backend and then
restart it in a few minutes, do the slaves reconnect?

Tom