[mythtv-users] Myth frontend on a mac..

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Sun Oct 21 01:18:37 UTC 2012


At 11:54 AM +1100 10/21/12, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>On 21 October 2012 10:52, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>  J-Y, what are you doing about the log server?  I played with .26 for a
>>  little bit but I found that I had to start mythlogserver manually. And then
>>  mythlogserver shuts itself down after 5 minutes of inactivity, right?  Do
>>  you have a fix or a workaround for http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10890?
>
>the issue has to do with how mythlogserver is started in the
>background and forked.
>you can run it manually just fine, but start it in the background and
>it immediately terminates.
>
>No idea why and can't debug that problem

Isn't it an OS X policy issue?  Launchd is supposed to be used to 
manage daemons and background processes?

>  >
>>  For me, this seems to be a major problem for an OS X backend!
>
>It works fine without mythlogserver..

Except that it spams the system log every few seconds trying and 
failing to start mythlogserver and the user is flying blind if there 
is any problem with Myth?

Craig


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