[mythtv-users] How to enable frontend and backend logs for Arch?

[david brooke]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/01/2014 08:46 PM, david brooke wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On 04/01/2014 06:19 PM, david brooke wrote:
>>>
>> ...
>
>  I'm testing on the frontend only for now. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>> ...
>
>
>>> With the frontend running, from a terminal type: ps ax|grep
>>> mythfrontend|grep -v grep
>>> and put the (one line) output here. The question is what logging options
>>> you're using
>>> (--syslog, --logpath etc.)
>>>
>>> The answer may have been in a previous message, but when I go to
>>> forum.manjaro.org
>>> firefox says it 'uses an invalid security certificate'. So, I didn't go
>>> there.
>>>
>>>
>  $ ps ax|grep mythfrontend|grep -v grep
>>   2290 ?        Sl     6:15 mythfrontend
>>
>
> You've not asked for any logging other that the default that prints to
> the console. Use mythfrontend --help to see your options, or see this
> Wiki for more detail: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Logging
>
> Here are 2 examples:
>
>     mythfrontend --quiet --logpath /var/log/mythtv
>     mythfrontend --quiet --syslog local7
>
> I prefer the 1st, but that will generate an individual log every time you
> start the frontend. --quiet shuts off console logging which isn't necessary
> if you're logging elsewhere. You don't have to use it.
>
> An Arch user will have to chime in if mythfrontend is a wrapper script that
> executes something else. In which case, that script could set the logging
> for you.
>
>
> --
> Bill
>

If someone from Arch could comment on the proper way to initiate the log in
both mythfrontend and mythbackend, it would be appreciated.
Thanks
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