[mythtv-users] How to debug wake up script

[David Watkins]

On 29/03/2008, Greg <ghaywood at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am struggling with what should be easy.
>
>  I am attempting to setup wakeup, I can manually set the
>  /proc/acpi/alarm just using a cat '2008.03.29 etc' > /procacpi/alarm
>  and shutdown teh system. This will then start ok.
>
>  I have the script in my myth setup using "sudo
>  /usr/local/bin/my-wakeup.sh $time" and the mythtv user is set sudo
>  NOPASSWD for the script, but it does not appear to be run on mythtv
>  shutdown.

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that the script only gets run
when the machine does an automatic shutdown (on idle).  If you're
stuck for things to try then you could look at the 'shutdown on idle'
settings.

...and look in the backend log for any error messages.