[mythtv] Dazed and Confused (Was Re: Ticket #10236: Mythbackend not shutting down correctly)

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/6/2012 18:20, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Once upon a time, master svn had a contrib folder which contained some
> nice scripts, for fedora or ubuntu which were to be moved to the proper
> spot and used to start the backend daemon. One of those scripts ended up
> as /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend.
>
> Those helpful scripts no longer exist in git master. I understand that
> versions may be provided by packagers, but none seem to exist otherwise.

Nearly all of that stuff got removed to the wiki prior to the 0.24 
release, in theory so users could keep them maintained, rather than 
leave them to stagnate in the repository.  You can still find them in 
the old branches.

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/fixes/0.23/mythtv/contrib/Linux/init_scripts/fedora.init.mythbackend
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Fedora_init.d_mythbackend

Those don't seem to line up with what you are describing.  The PID file 
is in the wrong place, and there is no mention of a pre-start script.

> An extra two points if you are old enough to have heard it when it first
> came out and can remember that.

Does it count if it bothers us to see pre-teens walking out of Hot Topic 
with prism t-shirts?