[vdr] Re: runvdr options & watchdog

["Richard Cieply" <CIEPLY@de.ibm.com>]

Tobias Meyer-Janson wrote:

>Perhaps I wasn't able to write want I wanted to say. Once more:
>If I start vdr with any option and later watchdog decides to restart it,
>what options are used by watchdog during this restart?
>
>For Example, if vdr is restarted without the -s option, it cannot
>poweroff the machine on idle, I think.

If the watchdog timer hits, VDR exits - the watchdog doesn't do the restart
itself.
You have to have a wrapper like one is provided with 'runvdr' which
restarts VDR with the options
you want it to (re-)start.
See runvdr for the logic of this.

Hope this helps.

Regards
  Richard