[mythtv-users] Remote Mythfrontend Problem

Mark Garland mythtvusers at markgarland.co.uk
Sat Jul 25 22:34:02 UTC 2009


Hi Steve,

This might help further - note the message about the log file.
Perhaps, on your system, this file defines where your logs go by default.


mark at htpc:~$ cat /etc/mythtv/session-settings 
############################################################################
###
# This file is used if /usr/bin/mythfrontend is called with --service
#
# as in mythtv.desktop which ships with the mythtv-frontend package
#
############################################################################
###

# Enable mythwelcome
# Note: if you enable this, MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS is ignored
# You will have to specify your startup options for mythfrontend in
mythwelcome
#
# Note: a log file is available at /var/log/mythtv/mythwelcome.log
# which should also include mythfrontend output
#
# MYTHWELCOME=true

# Startup options for mythfrontend
# "--verbose all,nodatabase" is just an example. You will get LOTS of
output!
# To obtain a list of verbose levels, run "mythfrontend --verbose help"
# To find out more about other available options, run "mythfrontend --help"
#
# Note: a log file is already available at /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log,
# so there's no need to specify --logfile (or -l) unless you want to log to
a
# non-standard location
#
# MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS="--verbose all,nodatabase"
mark at htpc:~$

MG
-----
"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up
there's no law against whacking them around a bit."
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mark Garland
Sent: 25 July 2009 23:29
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Mythfrontend Problem

Hi Steve,

I too start mine from a shortcut/icon created when I installed mythtv.
I'm not sure whether this starts it "as a service" in the linux sense of the
word.
The shortcut/icon runs the command "mythfrontend --service".

I've just tried it for you from a command line and it gave the below...

mark at htpc:~$ mythfrontend --service
Please note: additional command line arguments will not be passed
  to mythfrontend when using --service
Please set them in /etc/mythtv/session-settings instead

Frontend logs are then found here: /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log
To me (relative linux newbie) these look (using ls -lia) like standard files
here, not links to somewhere else.

Hope that helps,

MG
-----
"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up
there's no law against whacking them around a bit."
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Steve Milner
Sent: 25 July 2009 22:54
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Mythfrontend Problem

On 25/07/09 22:08, Mark Garland wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> "(I had to start
> mythfrontend from a terminal with a -l logfile.log to get a log)"
>
> Is there nothing in /var/log/mythtv ?   (not sure from memory if 'myth' or
> 'mythtv').
> If I start the backend and frontend as a service, that's where all my logs
> end up.

On my fronted system I don't have a /var/log/myth*

On the backend though, that's where I find the backend log.

How do you start the frontend as a service?

To start the mythfrontend on FC11 I simply start if from a gnome menu.

Regards,
Steve
_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users at mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users at mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list