Re: [orca-list] Again: Orca and internet radio

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi hermann,

> Yesterday and today I've tested again, and I discovered a strange
> phenomenon: While RB tries to play the stream, the following line
> appears when I type:
> ps aux
> hermann   6865  0.0  0.5   3920  1376 ?        S    10:47
> 0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q -t 0 -O /dev/null -w 2 http://localhost:20433
> When I kill Orca, the line has gone, the same when I kill RB. When I
> kill wget, Orca is gone too.
> What has wget to do with all that, and why does it connect to
> localhost:20433, the port Orca uses when acting as local TTS server?
>   
This is the Orca watchdog. You can find the following comment in
the /usr/bin/orca bash shell script:

# The watchdog will periodically ping Orca to see if it is responding.
# If orca isn't responding, the watchdog will kill the Orca process.
# The watchdog logic requires 'wget' ...

You kill Orca, and the Orca script will automatically stop the watchdog.

This is nothing to do with TTS.