[mythtv-users] backend still running old user job command line after I changed it

[Ian Evans]

On Sun, May 13, 2018, 11:11 PM Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Sun, 13 May 2018 20:41:49 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >On 05/13/2018 07:39 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
> >> Was having a problem with mythvidexport.py not exporting one recording.
> >>
> >> I decided to increase the logging and changed my user job command line
> from:
> >>
> >> /usr/share/mythtv/mythvidexport.py --delete %VERBOSEMODE% %JOBID%
> >>
> >> to:
> >>
> >> /usr/share/mythtv/mythvidexport.py --delete --syslog local7 --loglevel
> >> debug
> >> --verbose all %JOBID%
> >>
> >> I restarted the backend and restarted the frontend and ran the job
> again.
> >> However, the log showed it was running the old command line:
> >>
> >> May 13 20:31:54 buster mythbackend: mythbackend[1385]: E UserJob_56023
> >> jobqueue.cpp:2445 (DoUserJobThread) JobQueue: User Job
> >> '/usr/share/mythtv/mythvidexport.py --delete  --verbose general
> --loglevel
> >> info --quiet --syslog local7 56023' failed.
> >>
> >>
> >> Running setup again, I could see the command line was the new one I had
> put
> >> in. So why would the logs show it running the old one?
> >
> >Without seeing the actual commands and output, I can only guess that the
> initial
> >restart of the backend didn't take.
> >
> >The settings are cached, so you can really get by with just doing a:
> >mythutil --clearcache [-q -q] rather that restarting the BE.
> >
> >Or, your original command line is fine. Just do: mythbackend --setverbose
> all.
> >Then when the backend starts your UserJob, the options will be passed. I'd
> >suggest adding ,norefcount to cut down on the noise from all.
>
> How are you starting and stopping mythbackend?  On a systemd system,
> the old ways of doing that no longer work properly.  The correct
> commands for a systemd system are:
>
> systemctl start mythtv-backend
> systemclt stop mythtv-backend
>
> and restarting is:
>
> systemctl restart mythtv-backend
>
> To see what mythbackend's status is:
>
> systemctl status mythtv-backend
>
> I'm not running the command line to start and stop it. Running
> mythtv-setup it asks to stop it and then asks if it can restart it.
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