[mythtv] Do I need mythlogserver?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Nov 24 11:01:19 UTC 2013


On 11/24/13 08:21, Richard Shaw wrote:
> And I'm asking this from a RPM Fusion packaging perspective, not me
> personally.
> 
> The mythlogserver is supposed to be getting it's startup options from
> mythbackend, right?[1] But when I look at systemctl, it has the --daemon
> option applied even though I'm running mythbackend with type=simple w/o
> the daemon option:
> 
> # systemctl status mythbackend
> mythbackend.service - MythTV backend service
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mythbackend.service; enabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Sat 2013-11-16 17:45:32 CST; 1 weeks 0
> days ago
>  Main PID: 21652 (mythbackend)
>    CGroup: name=systemd:/system/mythbackend.service
>            ├─21652 /usr/bin/mythbackend --logpath /var/log/mythtv
>            └─21696 /usr/bin/mythlogserver --daemon --verbose general
> --logpath /var/log/mythtv --loglevel info
> 
> I think this is causing mythlogserver to exit funny and is actually
> being captured as a crash by abrt. 
> 
> So, can I get it to play nice with systemd? Or should I just disable
> mythlogserver for the RPM Fusion package?

With 0.27, mythlogserver is optional, and only really intended for
debugging segfaults and other hard crashes.


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