[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 4

[Douglas Wagner]

Typically a mythbackend script would have been put in your /etc/init.d
directory I would think when you did a make install.  Does one appear
(something maybe with a .sh or something) in the /usr/local hierarchy that
you might have to copy in?  Maybe check the documentation and contrib
directories for a startup script?

The good thing is, if you have an old system with a bootable myth-backend
it's easy to re-create that.

The easiest might be simply to copy the old file from the old system to
/etc/init.d, modify it to point to the directory structure (sounds like
/usr/local in your case) where you've installed Myth, and run it, the
options hopefully havn't changed much between 0.18 and 0.19 (I have NO
experience with .18).  Just make sure you use `chkconfig --level 345
mythbackend on` to get it starting at boot.

--Douglas Wagner

On 5/1/06, Alan Secker <alan at asandco.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi JJ
>
> I checked the Mandriva Control Centre for the Services running - and it
> wasn't.
> I had tried to run the compiled executable from where I had created it :
>
> /home/alan/programs/mythtv-0.19/programs/mythbackend
>
> I checked my old machine which had had a working Mythtv-0.18.1 and it had
> a
> bash script called mythbackend  in ~/init.d. My current setup doesn't.
> Neither
> is a copy of the execs present in /usr/local/bin.
>
> It looks like I have step missing in the build process but where?
>
> Regards
>
> Alan
> >> I now get MythTV coming up (version 0.19) but with four initial
> >> problems:
> >> 1) In Setup -  General, I get the message:
> >>
> >>     'Could not connect to the master backend server -- is it running?
> >>     Is the IP address set for it in the setup program correct?'
> >>
> >>     The answer to the first was No, mythbackend wasn't running. I
> >>     tried to start it (from Mandriva 2006) but it wouldn't.
> >>
> > How do you know it didn't start? In other words, tell us what you saw.
> > Did you look at the log ( try: 'tail /var/log/mythtv/mythtvbackend.log'
> > )? Are you trying to start it as the root user (try: 'sudo
> > /etc/init.d/mythbackend start')?
> >
> > Regards,
> >    JJ
> >
>
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