[FFmpeg-user] issue with monitoring script

[Pedro Daniel Costa]

Hi guys

I need some guidance

I have setup a crontab

To check every minute if a live transcoding channel has stopped.

The script gets pulled via crontab and I can see the instance starting up, but then after couple of seconds it gets shutdown,


If I run the script manually it starts both ffserver and ffmpeg input couple of seconds later and it run for hours/days with no problem..

If I close the terminal where I have executed the script and let the crontab execute it, it start and shutdown couple of seconds after

I have correct permissions on the script files and config files..

Here is the ouput of the script

Can someone help me on this as I want to make a monitoring script to check all the live transmission transcodings being used


And if it crashes or stops I want the crontab to init ffserver and ffmpeg shortly after again


Here is the output of the script, can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I use the same similar script to my middlware application to check the live multicast transmission and tunners setup from the PCI devices..


##########
# check channel transcoding
# ffserver channel1.sh
##########

#!/bin/bash


if ps x |grep -v grep | grep channel1.cfg ;
then
echo "FFserver runing "
else
echo "FFserver down"
ffserver -d -f channel1.cfg
fi
sleep 10
if ps x |grep -v grep | grep channel1.ffm ;
then
echo "Transcoder running "
else
echo "transcoder down"
ffmpeg -i udp://@239.106.3.0:4002 http://170.80.123.234:8890/channel1.ffm
fi




Any hints or tips on how to setup a correct check status script will be appreciated.