[mythtv-users] shutting down mythtv question?

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Chaloupka, Karel wrote:
> Is there anything special in shutting down MythTV? I've specfied ESC as 
> keyboard command and the command and poweroff (I believe it's poweroff 
> or maybe powerdown"). I've also tried halt, but with no prevail! Is 
> there anything special that needs to be done?


If your front end and back end are on the same machine Myth will not 
give you the shutdown prompt.  Baring that, I'd make sure that the 
shutdown command you're using can be executed by the mythtv user.