[mythtv-users] mythmessage - what I learned

[Bill Meek]

On 06/25/2012 11:05 AM, Scott & Nicole Harris wrote:
...
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Content-type: text/html\n"
> echo ""
> echo "Hello World"
> mythutil --message --message_text "Hi There" --timeout 5 -v --bcastaddr 192.168.25.32
>
> If I execute this script directly (./caller-id), it works and the message pops up on my 192.168.25.32 frontend. However, if I browse to
> http://apache-server/cgi-bin/caller-id.sh my browser displays the "Hello World" message, but nothing pops up on my 192.168.25.32 front end. This
> is the same issue I had trying to do it as a php page.
>
> Any suggestions?

Hi;

Add 2>&1 >> /tmp/cgi-test.out to the mythutil command line.
Then check see whats in /tmp/cgi-test.out. Maybe $PATH
doesn't include mythutil's directory.

-- 
Bill