[vdr] Re: check if vdr alive

["Walter, Marcel" <Marcel.Walter@drkw.com>]

Why donīt you write a start/stop-script which you can store under
/etc/init.d and takes
the arguments start|stop|info ?
You could then add a cron-job that executes every ten minutes a script that
runs "/etc/init.d/vdr info" and parses the results ...
Depending on the result you take your desired action...

If your start/stop-script is started with "info" then it will do something
like this "ps -ef | grep vdr | wc -l "
Would this be satisfying ?

Why vdr two times?

Cheers, 
Marcel

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Juergen Schmidt [SMTP:ju@ct.heise.de]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 05, 2002 13:55
> To:	vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject:	[vdr] check if vdr alive
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I need a way to check regularly, if vdr is still alive (and working!).
> Ther are a couple of ways I can think of like
> 
> fuser /dev/ost/frontend0
> echo "quit" | nc loclahost 2001
> 
> Is there a "recommended" way to check this?
> 
> bye, juergen
> 
> PS: As I'm running 2 instances of vdr, I have to check, I cannot use the
> simple mechanism used in runvdr...
> 
> 


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