[mythtv-users] Logging question

[Mike Perkins]

On 28/08/12 16:23, Stefan D wrote:
>>
>> 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)
>>
>
> I change the prefix to /usr so i overwrite the same files that Mythbuntu
> installed.
>
(Trimmed the junk)

Just compiling source over the distribution files doesn't always work. There may 
be libraries still around from the previous install which are no longer used in 
the new source, so won't be overwritten, but still picked up because they are in 
the path. 'make distclean' may not even do it.

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Mike Perkins