Hi all

I am running a Mythtv frontend, if mythfrontend crashes I want to restart it automatically. I have the following script which works when run from the command line './mythfrontend_restart.sh'. However when I add the line to my crontab * * * * * /home/mythuser/mythfrontend_restart.sh nothing happerns. I know the script is getting ran as I have fed the output into a text file, it seems to ignore the 'mythfrontend' command.

#!/bin/bash

pidno=$( ps ax | grep mythfrontend.real | grep -v grep | grep -v mythmon)
# echo $pidno
# Checks for pid in "ps" listing, field #1.
# Then makes sure it is the actual process, not the process invoked by this scr$
# The last "grep $1" filters out this possibility.
if [ -z "$pidno" ] # If, after all the filtering, the result is a zero-length $
then # no running process corresponds to the pid given.
echo "No such process running."
mythfrontend
exit $E_NOSUCHPROCESS
fi

Any help gratefully received.

Regards

Stefan

Try to give the full path to the command mythfrontend, since crontab has a very limited path (usually /bin and /usr/bin).

Tried that after making the post - same result.

You've redirected output to a file and you've seen the message "No such process running"? Have you redirected the standard error as well?

How would i do that?