You can pretty much add however scripting magic you want to , for whatever your needs (logging, for example,) but basically, what you need is something like
while true do mythfrontend done You'll have to either alt-tab to the term you ran that in and do ^C or kill it to exit mythfrontend. -Nate On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:36:39 -0500, Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another approach. Since I never stop the frontend in my living > room except to reboot it (which I generally do via SSH), I use a > script I hacked up to somewhat intelligently control a program that > crashes at startup (mainly due to transient errors): > > krose_run > --------- > #! /bin/bash > > # === CONFIG START ======================== > BLIPCYCLE=30 > ROLLDELAY=900 > # === CONFIG END ========================== > > trap finalize 15 > > finalize() > { > if [ "${CHILDPID}" != "" ]; then > kill ${CHILDPID} > fi > exit 0 > } > > LASTSTART=0 > while true; do > NOW=`date +%s` > TOOSHORT=$((${NOW}-${LASTSTART} < ${BLIPCYCLE})) > if [ ${TOOSHORT} = 1 ]; then > sleep ${ROLLDELAY} & > CHILDPID=$! > wait ${CHILDPID} > CHILDPID="" > fi > LASTSTART=`date +%s` > "$@" & > CHILDPID=$! > wait ${CHILDPID} > CHILDPID="" > done > --------- > > You then can run any command that should run forever (i.e., until > the krose_run instance is TERM'ed) just by prepending it with > krose_run: > > krose_run /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend --verbose playback > > and the program will be continually respawned until TERM'ed, but will > wait 900 seconds before the next attempt if the program exits less > than 30 seconds since the last execution. > > I use this to run both my backend and frontend: the backend init > script calls krose_run on /usr/local/bin/mythbackend directly, while > the frontend init script calls startx as user mythtv for "start" and > for "stop" relies on a pid file that .xinitrc writes for the krose_run > process that manages mythfrontend. This way, both backend and > frontend keep respawning until I explicitly stop them with the init > script. > > Cheers, > Kyle > > > Bryan Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is what I use. It restarts myth if it crashes, but not if you exit > > it normally. Modify to fit your environment. > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > export DISPLAY=":0.1" > > xset -display :0.1 -dpms > > xset -display :0.1 s off > > > > until [ "$?" == "1" ]; do > > /opt/MythTV/bin/mythfrontend > /tmp/mythfrontend.log 2>&1 > > done > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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