MythTV Backend Restart
Automatically Restarting Mythbackend
Even though the mythbackend task is usually very stable, it has been known to crash now and again due to driver issues and the like. This can be very frustrating if it causes you to miss a recording. This page details a couple of ways of dealing with this...
Monit
Monit is a standard utility which can be configured to monitor and restart the backend process:
Mythmon Script
Alternatively, here's a script to specifically to monitor and restart the backend process:
- Download and copy the mythmon to /usr/bin.
- Download and copy the mythmon.cron to /etc/cron.
Make mythmon executable:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/mythmon
The script runs every minute and restarts the mythbackend task if it isn't running. It writes a log file to /tmp/mythmon.log