Hello Klaus watchdog timer is not active. I'll give it a try, might be I'll get some results. It seems to be related to the klogd. If the network is restarted vdr is semi-dead. (The remote logins are disconnected) My sytem is vanilla SuSE 9.0 no patches to the kernel no kernel- upgrade.... regards Wolfgang >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >
