Hi,

I had my first "major" problem with KnoppMyth today. Apparently my backend crashed while I was at work. I tried to sign into MythWeb to schedule a recording I really wanted, and I get the notice
"Error Unable to connect to the master backend at 127.0.0.1:6543. Is it running?"
Other services on the box like the virtual remotes, docs, and RRD tools are up.

I was planning on writing a cron job script to ping the backend port 6543 once per hour and if it didn't respond, kill and restart KnoppMyth. But I have discovered it is not so easy, because you can't just ping a port. I saw a recommendation to telnet for ports being awake, but that doesn't work. I saw a recommendation to nmap or traceroute the ports. I haven't figured out these yet.

But I was wondering, has anyone else figured out a way to verify the backend is up and responsive yet? Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks.

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Trying to install KnoppMyth R5F27, ECS 671T-M, Celeron 430, 1gig RAM, 320gig SATA Seagate, Samsung SATA SH-S203N DVD drive, Onboard video and audio, DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite, Seasonic S12II-330watt PS

Have you seen thornsoft's backend babysitting script?

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... it+backend

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I had not seen this yet, and I never thought of searching for babysit. Perfect, thanks.

Through that thread, I just discovered mbemon. Does anyone have an opinion on which is better?

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10998

Man... And from that thread I just discovered monit. Now I really don't know which one I prefer.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/St ... ing_How_To

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Trying to install KnoppMyth R5F27, ECS 671T-M, Celeron 430, 1gig RAM, 320gig SATA Seagate, Samsung SATA SH-S203N DVD drive, Onboard video and audio, DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite, Seasonic S12II-330watt PS