I am having the EXACT same problem! pissed me off too, cause it seemed to be working good for a couple days, I set some stuff up to record, and wasn't there to monitor it, and bam! record_daemon stopped running on me, and now I missed the shows!!! @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ I wrote a similar script that I now call every minute from cron:
#!/bin/sh /bin/rm -f /var/run/freevo-record_daemon.py.pid cd /usr/local/freevo ./freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py hopefully this will help solve my problem. I setup an extensive recording schedule today to test the new script, and am keeping my fingers crossed that it works. --Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "K. Creason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: [Freevo-users] what is up with the pid files? > My record_daemon.py was constantly breaking due to the pid file in /var/run. > The previous process isn't running - but that @[EMAIL PROTECTED] pid file was still > there and stopping the next one. > Actually, now that I think back, it's always still there but sometimes it > would run and sometimes it wouldn't. And once it wouldn't, you couldn't get > it to start again until you removed the pid file. > What is with that? Shouldn't it be removed when the daemon exits? > > I had to modify my cron entry: > * * * * * cd /usr/local/freevo; ./freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py > >>/tmp/freevo.cron.out 2>&1 ; sleep 10; rm > /var/run/freevo-record_daemon.py.pid >>/tmp/freevo.cron.out 2>&1 > > Now I'm happy, but is it an accident waiting to happen? > > -K > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the > same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
