[mythtv-users] Startup Frontend via SSH

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jul 28 15:44:40 UTC 2008


On 07/28/2008 11:40 AM, David Brieck Jr. wrote:
> Until very recently (when I upgraded my Ubuntu box), I had a very nice
> script setup so that I could remotely (re)start the frontend on one of
> my machines. Since the upgrade though, this doesn't seem to work
> either locally or remotely. Any idea what I'm missing or what changed?
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export DISPLAY=:0
> killall mythfrontend.real
> killall irexec
> nohup irexec&
> nohup mythfrontend&

Any errors?  Any log output indicating problems (like missing HOME or 
something)?  Might need to add -l /path/to/logfile to your mythfrontend 
command line to see log output.

Mike


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