[misterhouse-users] Re:Detect ungraceful mh termination

Thanks, Bruce.

That did it!  Much appreciated.

Sam
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>Is there a way for mh to determine, upon Restart, that the system (and/or
>mh) had just previously been ungracefully terminated? ie power failure.
>
>What I would like to be able to do is to restore some conditions
>when power
>returns, but only when mh is restarted after a power failure.  If
>I simply
>exit mh and restart it, I would want to bypass my "restoration" code.

This code in mh/code/mh_control.pl should be giving you a message on
restarting after ungracefull exit:

if ($Startup and $Save{mh_exit} ne 'normal') {
    display "MisterHouse auto restarted: $Save{mh_exit}", 0;
}

Bruce




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