[mythtv] logging mythbackend results

Patrick Pflaum pat at netburp.com
Wed Jan 15 12:50:09 EST 2003


mythbackend > log 2>&1

would be my first guess.    2>&1 redirects stderr to the place that 
stdout is going ( > log ).

Pat


Greg.Froese at federated.ca wrote:

>is there a way to log all messages normally spit out on the terminal 
>through mythbackend to a file?
>
>i tried running mythbackend > log & and that sort of worked.
>
>I got the initial setup text to show up in log, but then other messages 
>started appearing again in the terminal and not in the log.
>it would be nice to be able to do this over an nfs mount if you are 
>getting lockups in myth, you could easily see the latest messages in the 
>log and find out where myth was causing a problem.
>
>maybe there is already a good way to do this, but i'm not aware of one.
>
>another feature i can see for this functionality is the ability to email 
>myself that log file every so often to see exactly what mythbackend is 
>doing.  again, not an issue for a mature program which should behave just 
>as expected, but while myth is still under heavy development, i would find 
>this useful.
>
>gf
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