[mythtv-users] Logging question

[Bill Meek]

On 08/28/2012 03:35 AM, Stefan D wrote:
> A few days ago i installed mythbuntu 12.04. With that i got a working
> syslog for mythtv that i hadn't bothered to fix in my old installation. It
> worked nice and the logs was filling up with information.
> But since i need a few patches and changes to myth i compile from source.
> So i compiled and installed from my old source directory, did a git pull
> first, and installed. But now it seems that the syslog logging has stopped.
> So i wonder if i should have compiled with some extra options? Or how could
> i try to find the problem?

Hi;

Some ideas, if you've not already been there:

Building from source doesn't change your init file or logging
configurations (at least it doesn't for me.)

If you do: ps axl | grep mythbackend | grep -v grep , is your
logging still --syslog local 7 (as opposed to --logpath ... ?

Mythbuntu starts the backend in /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf,
which shouldn't have changed because you're building from source,
but is it executing your /usr/local/bin/mythbackend, not
/usr/bin/mythbackend?

You can always start the backend from the command line for testing:

  sudo /usr/local/bin/mythbackend --logpath /tmp -v --user mythtv

  (or --syslog local7 in place of --logpath /tmp)

-- 
Bill