Automatically Restarting Plex on a Synology NAS
I run Plex on a Synology NAS, and every few days the Plex service would crash. Thankfully reddit came to the rescue with a Plex package auto-restart script.
I also found that the synopkg is_onoff command would report that the Plex was running when it wasn't. More information about synopkg.
Script reproduced below for archival purposes.
#!/bin/bash
echo Checking if plex is running...
#if /usr/syno/bin/synopkg is_onoff "Plex Media Server" > /dev/null
if echo > /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/32400 > /dev/null
then
echo Plex is running.
exit 0
else
echo Plex is not running. Will attempt to start it.
echo
echo --------------------Last 20 log entries--------------------
tail -20 /volume1/Plex/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Logs/Plex\ Media\ Server.log
echo --------------------End of log--------------------
echo
/usr/syno/bin/synopkg stop "Plex Media Server"
sleep 60
/usr/syno/bin/synopkg start "Plex Media Server"
exit 1
fi