Wolfgang Goeller wrote: > Hello > > Sometimes a recording is not done although vdr is running. > Since vdr was running - according to ps runvdr did not restart vdr. > > I dont't know what's the reason, might be, my vdr sometimes > get tired :-) In /var/log/messages I find no explanation. > But I think I've got a reasonable and simple solution: > > When vdr behaves like this (halfdead) I can't connect to > the svdrhost. My proposal thus for testing if vdr is really > alive: > > a=`svdrpsend.pl -p 2001 "quit" | grep SVDRP` > if [ -z $a ] > then > RESTART > fi Do you have the watchdog timer active (option -w)? If so, it might be interesting to find out why it doesn't kick in. Klaus
