[mythtv-users] Log output of user jobs via MythLog class?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu May 1 02:18:00 UTC 2014


On 4/30/2014 7:43 PM, Nicolas Krzywinski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just am trying to find out why mythvidexport.pl interpreted a tv
> series episode as movie and fetched weirdly wrong metadata for it
> therefore... but where the h*ll does it log to?
>
> I can see that it imports the MythLog class from MythTV and that it
> calls self.log() everywhere.
> But there is nothing in the backend log, nothing in the frontend log and
> the job queue log is of size zero.
>
> Does it log to /dev/null in which no one hear it crying?? :D

If you don't tell it where to log, it will log to stdout, and be shunted 
to /dev/null by the jobqueue. The script uses the same logging 
parameters as the various MythTV binaries, or you can pass it 
%VERBOSEMODE% and have the jobqueue automatically propagate the 
parameters it is using.


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