[mythtv-users] Backend Reboot Script

[Andre Newman]

On 15 Jun 2015, at 11:19, Darac Marjal <mailinglist at darac.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 08:25:19PM -0500, Michael Wisniewski wrote:
>>   I was wondering if anybody out there has a reboot or shutdown script that
>>   would prevent it if the backend is recording.  
>>   There's been a few times where I'll do a reboot and then find out later
>>   that myth was recording something, then the recording will fail.  I could
>>   probably whip something together, but thought I would ask here to see if
>>   somebody has already done this.
> 
> Try http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html. If you
> also install "molly-guard", mythtv-status will add a molly-guard hook
> which will ask if you really want to shutdown when there's a recording
> either in progress or due soon.

Thanks for the pointer to molly-guard and extremely useful piece of software that somehow I’d never heard of, I do know what a molly guard is/was though.

Great for the original poster’s problem, which has caught me out before but especially useful for the rebooting the wrong server over ssh problem or the even worse shutting down the wrong server over ssh problem!

Andre


> 
>>   Thanks in advanced.
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