[mythtv-users] Help Using MythTv

[Mike Adolf]

David Watkins wrote:
>>> Now to start it I use two terminal windows one to start the backend and
>>> one to start the frontend. Is there a way to have the backend start
>>> automatically when the frontend is started? ... And shutdown when the
>>> frontend is stopped?
>>>       
>
> As Paul suggested, the backend is normally run as a daemon or service,
> and started using the provided startup script with something like:
>
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
>
> or
>
> service mythbackend start
>
> so you could write your own script to start the backend followed by
> the frontend.
>
> The backend can be configured to "shut down on idle", which means that
> when you close the frontend the backend will shut down too, as soon as
> it finishes any current recordings.
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Thanks, I'll give this a try.

Mike