[mythtv-users] irexec fails to start on boot

[Alec Leamas]

On 14/01/16 01:18, Robert Dege wrote:
> Alec,
>
> The socket location was the problem.  In /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, I set
> REMOTE_SOCKET="/dev/lircd".  Even though /dev/lircd was a soft link to
> /var/run/lirc/lircd, irexec was failing since it wasn't following the
> sym link.

It's not that it doesn't follow the symlink. In 0.9.0 the irexec socket 
location is just hardcoded. This is actually a bug, fixed since long.

> I updated the REMOTE_SOCKET variable to point to
> /var/run/lirc/lircd, and now it works fine.

Happy that it works for you. However, please don't top-post, it makes 
the archives to a mess.

Cheers!

--alec