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

[Markus Kalb <Markus.Kalb@gmx.net>]

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 


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