[mythtv] Re:Recurring Manual Recordings

Rick Warner rick at sapphire.no-ip.com
Tue Sep 23 03:00:50 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:34 am, a a wrote:
> Is there anything that needs to be kicked in order for
> rows I manually inserted into program and record to be
> handled by mythbackend?  I'm not able to get this cron
> script to consistently work.  It seems like if the
> rows are inserted and mythbackend is not touched, then
> it misses the recording... but I'm still trying to
> track down the exact circumstances.  
>
> Am I out to lunch to think that something has to be
> notified in order for the table to be scanned again?
> If so, is there a good way to do it from a cron
> script?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett
In general, most programs will re-read stuff when a HUP signal is sent.  If 
this is not already being checked for, it should be added to the signal 
handling.  You could then just run "killall -HUP mythbackend" to force 
mythbackend to reread tables, etc (whatever you set up mythbackend to do when 
it receives the signal basically)



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