[vdr] Re: vdr Restarting Tool (cron Job + Perl)

["Bernhard Ritter" <bernhard.ritter@digital-hobby.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Kalb" <Markus.Kalb@gmx.net>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:25 AM
Subject: [vdr] vdr Restarting Tool (cron Job + Perl)


> Hi
>
> as my vdr was chrashing a lot in the last days and the watchdog didn't
> catch all of them i wrote a little perl script that is startet every 5
> minutes by the cron deamon and if ther is no vdr running it restarts
> it.
>
> The script itself is included as a attachment. i have tried to comment
> it as much as possible so that all of you should be able too
> understand what is going on if you want to take a look.
>
> Important to now are the following things.
>
> a) the script asumes that you started ypur vdr with a full path just
> as the runvdr script does that. so if you run the followin on the
> command line
>
>   "ps -ef |grep vdr"
>
> you should  get something like
>
> vdrusr    21656 21654  0 02:11 pts/2    00:00:00
> /home/vdruser/vdrXyZ/vdr
>
>
> b) for restarting my script uses the runvdr script so make shure it's
> in the dir you configure in the attached checkvdr.pl file.
>
>
> c) this software is a quick hack and is so far only tested on my
> system
>
> d) if you have problems you can mail me, but if i have time to help
> you is a totlay other thing so maybe you might have to wait a little
> bit ;)
>
> e) you need to put the line below in the crontab of root. That is done
> with "crontab -e" and you will have to change the "/root/bin/" part to
> whereever you put the script. With this setting the check is done
> every 5 mins. if you want it done every 10 minutes just replace 5 with
> 10. for more info about that you can also execute "man 5 crontab"
>
> */5 * * * * /root/bin/checkvdr.pl
>
>
> f) the software is realeased under GPL
>
> d) may your life prosper as long as the force is with you
>
>
> ciao marks
>
>
>

Have you seen the runvdr script in the Distribution. It starts VDR
immidiately after it has crashed. It fails only If VDR hungs. Is there a
chance to figure out if the VDR is running but not working properly.

BR