[mythtv-users] SystemD (Was: Recommended Linux Distro post CentOS)

[marcus hall]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 01:24:40PM -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> 
> I hope we have not confused the OP. Not a misconception on my part. I was
> talking about setting up an external FE. As you point out, the database
> server *can be* on a different box entirely from any BE or FE. In that case,
> all boxes are treated as 'external' to the db server and need the <Host>
> attribute to point to the db box. Only in the case of a combined BE/db
> server can you use (and should use) 'localhost' (so that, in that particular
> case, a socket is used instead of networking).

Not confused at all, I just was expressing exasperation at systemd, not really
looking for anything.  I did add StartLimitIntervalSec = 0 to my override file
and next time things reboot, perhaps the backend will start up.

It does so happen that the database and one frontend are on the same box, but
nowadays I tend to use other frontends more than it.  I am anticipating
retiring that box and building a container for it on my main server (or
maybe just running it native, I don't have any exposure to the outside world
on any mythtv ports).

It does seem like with restarts every 3 seconds, It seems that I could hit
the StartLimit of 5 restarts at 12 seconds, after the default of 10s, but
maybe that is slightly too close, although it seemed to fail startup for
3 of 3 reboots since the problem started happening...

Now, if I could just figure out how to get Plex to re-load the cover.jpg
images for music once I have changed the file...  But that's certainly
fodder for a different mailing list (as well as this systemd issue, really.)

marcus hall
marcus at tuells.org