[mythtv-users] Is there an easy way to Suspend/Pause/Stop all future recordings?

Mudit Wahal mwahal at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 19:27:11 UTC 2005


Mark,

Depending upon your distro, if you have
/etc/default/mythbackend-default (or something like that), you can add
the options you want when mythbackend runs.

In my knoppixmyth, I've EXTRA_ARGS in the default file. I modify that
to pass various options which I want.

Thanks
Mudit

On 6/20/05, Mark <mythtv at shelfspace.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Bruce Markey wrote:
> 
> >> 3) Is there an easy way to "disable" future recordings, without
> >>     telling MythTV on a program by program basis to "Don't Record this
> >>     showing"
> 
> >
> > mythbackend --nosched
> > --  bjm
> 
> Bruce - that worked like a charm!  Thank you very much!
> 
> 
> 
> btw, doing this will not work:
> $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend --nosched
> 
> So what I did is copy /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend to
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend.nosched
> and then edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend.nosched to append '--nosched' to
> the OPTIONS string.
> 
> 
> 
> Here is a diff so you can see what I mean:
> 
> [root at mythtv init.d]# diff mythbackend mythbackend.nosched
> 24c24
> < OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/$prog.log --pidfile
> /var/run/$prog.pid"
> ---
> > OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/$prog.log
> --pidfile /var/run/$prog.pid --nosched"
> 
> 
> 
> So now, when my cable is out, I run:
> [root at mythtv init.d]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend.nosched start
> Starting mythbackend:                                      [  OK  ]
> 
> 
> 
> mark
> 
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