Debian init.d mythbackend

name=Debian - mythbackend init author=unknown webpage=none short=Debian mythbackend start script. long=An init.d script for launching mythbackend using the dependency-based init system in Debian 6+. file=none category=Startup Scripts supports=S21:unset,S22:unset,S23:unset,S231:unset,S24:unset,S241:unset,S25:unset,S251:unset,S252:unset,S26:unset,S27:unset,S28:unset,S29:unset,S30:unset,S31:unset,S32:unset,S33:unset,S34:unset

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Description	An init.d script for launching mythbackend using the dependency-based init system in Debian 6+.
Supports

An init.d script for launching mythbackend using the dependency-based init system in Debian 6+. Also see, LSB_init.d_mythbackend.

Script

/etc/init.d/mythbackend

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          mythbackend
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the MythTV backend
# Description:       starts mythbackend using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# LOCATION=/usr/local/bin
DAEMON=$(which mythbackend)
NAME="mythbackend"
DESC="MythTV Backend"

test -x $DAEMON || (echo "mythbackend is not in $PATH or it is not executable" &&  exit 1)

set -e

USER=mythtv
RUNDIR=/var/run/mythtv
LOGFILE=/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
ARGS="--daemon --logfile $LOGFILE --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid"
EXTRA_ARGS="-v important"
NICE=0

if [ -f /etc/mythtv/mythbackend ]; then
  . /etc/mythtv/mythbackend
fi

ARGS="$ARGS $EXTRA_ARGS"

mkdir -p $RUNDIR
chown -R $USER $RUNDIR


case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
##       For those with firewire this will reset things before the backend starts.
##       Should replace with keep_dct_alive.sh script at some point.
#       firewire_tester -R
#       firewire_tester -B -p 0 -n 0 -r 10
#       firewire_tester -B -p 0 -n 1 -r 10
#       firewire_tester -B -p 0 -n 2 -r 10
        start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
                --chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
        echo "."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
                --chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
        echo "."
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
                --chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
        echo "."
        sleep 3
        start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
                --chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
        echo "."
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        # echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

A similar script to this was used in the mythtv deb package. It causes errors like: "errror creating /.qt" This error in itself seems benign. The cause of this error is the HOME environment setting not being set correctly. This caused more problems for tv listings updates that mythtv calls, or any other program that mythtv calls and assumes it can write files to the home directory.

A simple fix, put

HOME=/home/mythtv

after the USER=mythtv line.

Installation

1) Copy paste to /etc/init.d/mythbackend

2) Apply correct permissions:

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/mythbackend

3) Tell Debian to use this init script

• For Debian 6+ (verbose mode tells you what's going on)

insserv -v mythbackend

• For Debian 5 or lower (will not use LSB metadata, may need to remove "defaults" and fiddle the "SS KK" numbers to get it to execute after mysql, in any case you should not be installing MythTV on Debian 5 as it's support will end after Feb 2012)

update-rc.d mythbackend defaults