[mythtv-users] Logging question

[Stefan D]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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I change the prefix to /usr so i overwrite the same files that Mythbuntu
installed.

ps axl | grep mythbackend | grep -v grep gives me:
/usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv

/Stefan
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