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

[R. G. Newbury]

On 01/06/2012 09:12 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 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.

I'll check those tomorrow. but I didn't get them from there...At least, 
not that I recall (and if that answer was good enough for William 
Jefferson Clinton, it should be good for me!)

I posted the files which I have on another post.

>> 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?


-1 for being an old fart! And you haven't earned *any* points yet!

Geoff