[mythtv-commits] Ticket #10890: Mythfrontend tries every 30s to start mythlogserver

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#10890: Mythfrontend tries every 30s to start mythlogserver
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 Reporter:  jyavenard             |          Owner:  beirdo
     Type:  Bug Report - General  |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  minor                 |      Milestone:  unknown
Component:  MythTV - General      |        Version:  Master Head
 Severity:  medium                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                        |  Ticket locked:  0
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Comment (by xdrcft@…):

 I've done some more experimenting and have found a way to get
 mythlogserver to
 do its job on OS-X in a way that seems perfectly normal.

 1) Edit osx-packager-qtsdk.pl so that the mythlogserver binary is included
 in the
 MythBackend.app bundle (adding it to the list at around line 1910), and
 execute
 that Perl script to build the app.

 2) Put the following mythlogserver.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/:


 {{{
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
 <plist version="1.0">
 <dict>
         <key>KeepAlive</key>
         <true/>
         <key>Label</key>
         <string>mythlogserver</string>
         <key>ProgramArguments</key>
         <array>
 <string>/Applications/MythTV/MythBackend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythlogserver</string>
         </array>
 </dict>
 </plist>
 }}}

 3) Put the following MythBackend.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ :


 {{{
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
 <plist version="1.0">
 <dict>
         <key>KeepAlive</key>
         <true/>
         <key>Label</key>
         <string>MythBackend</string>
         <key>ProgramArguments</key>
         <array>
 <string>/Applications/MythTV/MythBackend.app/Contents/MacOS/MythBackend</string>
                 <string>--logpath</string>
                 <string>/Users/dgktkr/Library/Logs/MythBackend</string>
         </array>
 </dict>
 </plist>
 }}}

 Now when I boot up and log in, MythBackend and mythlogserver are running
 and logs are written in the expected places. And neither MythBackend nor
 mythlogserver crash.

 I tried running mythlogserver without the KeepAlive option in the plist,
 and indeed, the process goes away and returns as needed for logging,
 but looking at cpu usage in Activity Monitor indicates that significant
 effort takes place to build up and tear down the process. KeepAlive keeps
 the
 process there all the time, but seems to put less of a load on the system.

 dgktkr

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