[mythtv-users] How to safely stop mythcommflag

[Mitch Gore]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:14:52AM -0500, Paul wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Bruce Nordstrand <brucen at ksl.com.au>
> wrote:
> > > Sometimes I would like to stop mythcommflag from running 'cause it
> loads
> > > up my machine. Just how do I do it safely without disturbing the
> > > database tables?
>
>     In general, you can set a "maintenance window" for your jobs so that
> they won't be running at other times. I have started to do that and I have
> my desktop machine running a slave backend for commflagging.
>
>    I was running into a similar problem. I wasn't nice about it and ended
> up having stuff to clean up afterwards. Then I ran into the
> jobstart/jobstop
> settings and that worked a lot better/cleaner.
>
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Bruce
> >
> > I think you can send it a STOP signal via kill to pause it, and then a
> > CONT to restart. At least that is what seems to be a case based off a
> > script i came across by crushinator:
> > http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16027
>

You can stop jobs from right in the GUI.  Go to system status and job
queue.  Click on the job and say pause or stop.

Mitchell
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