[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend shutdown

[Mario Limonciello]

Peter Øgaard Meyland wrote:
> Ryan Pisani skrev:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I have a combo FE / BE in the livingroom and a FE Only in the bedroom.
>>> My problem is that i can't shutodown the FE from within MythTV. Every
>>> time i select Shutdown in the mainmenu nothing happends.
>>>
>>> I have done the following:
>>>     1 I have enabled SHUTDOWN in mainmenu.xml
>>>     2 As HaltCommand I have entered 'sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now' (I
>>> guess that SHUTDOWN is executing this)
>>>     
>> Try providing the full path to sudo in your shutdown command.
>>
>> /usr/bin/sudo (or where ever you have it installed) /sbin/shutdown -h now
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>>     3 Using visudo I have entered the following line mythUser
>>> ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/halt
>>>
>>> The user MythUser can execute the command 'sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now'
>>> from a terminal windows and everything works, but not from within
>>> MythFrontend. What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> /Peter
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> Providing the absolute path to sudo did not work, the result are the same.
> I think I can live with the script solution, it works right now :-)
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> /Peter
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If you are running on Ubuntu 8.04+, try:

/usr/share/mythtv/myth-halt.sh

It uses hal to do things.

-- 
Mario Limonciello
mario.mailing at gmail.com

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