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TheFreshPrinceOfBel-Air / plex_restart.sh
Created July 13, 2017 06:37 — forked from fwenzel/plex_restart.sh
Simple watchdog script to restart plex media server if it becomes unresponsive.
#!/bin/bash
# If plex is not running, don't do anything.
plex_running=`ps ax | grep "\./Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | wc -l`
if [ "$plex_running" -eq 1 ]; then
exit 0
fi
# Test Plex web interface. If it's dead, this'll time out in a few seconds.
curl -I -m 8 "http://localhost:32400/library/sections" > /dev/null 2>&1