[mythtv-users] backend cannot find mythcommflag

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Mon Oct 17 17:55:25 EDT 2005


Mark Gardner wrote:

>On 10/14/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
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>>Mark Gardner wrote:
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>>>Commercial Flagging is not working anymore.
>>>I'm getting this error in the backend logs.
>>>Commercial Flagging ERRORED for The Drew Carey Show "Science Names
>>>Suck" recorded from channel 1010 at Fri Oct 14 13:00:00 2005, unable
>>>to find mythcommflag, check your PATH and backend logs.
>>>
>>>mythcommflag is on the path. ( /usr/local/bin )
>>>
>>>It's running on Open SUSE 10
>>>
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>>>      
>>>
>>Is that path in the path of the user that is running mythcommflag?
>>Remember, if mythbackend is running from a startup script, many
>>environment variables, including the PATH aren't set yet.
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>The pathing appears to be all correct.  mythfrontend is started via
>symbolic link in ~/.kde/Autostart
>mythtv user has /usr/local/bin in its path.
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It's the user that runs mythbackend that you need to examine.  This is 
probably started using an init script in /etc/init.d and generally 
speaking, the paths haven't been set at this point. 

Kevin


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