[mythtv-users] Re: Changing System Time

[Christian Hack]

Well I don't actually do exactly like you think. I have my wmaker
autologin (so Myth runs automatically on a powerup) and it autoruns the
frontend, so a quick fix for restarting mythfrontend is to go "init
3;sleep 10;init 5". I don't know whether the sleep 10 is necessary. It
doesn't happen often, so I haven't gotten around to doing much about it.
I do plan on running a daemon of some sort monitoring a small push
button or two on the parallel port, so I can do a system or X restart in
the case of a crash without having to fire up another PC and telnet in.

The "export DISPLAY=..." method is probably the best way to do it - but
my way works and if it ain't broke....

Christian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Francis Gulotta
> Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 3:36 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Changing System Time
> 
> 
> You need to set the display variable to localhost (try 
> "export DISPLAY=localhost:0") but I would start it from with 
> in a "screen" session from the telnet session, that way you 
> wouldn't have to log out and shut down the frontend. (Unless 
> you put it to background.)
> 
> -Francis
> On Wednesday, August 06, 2003, at 12:22PM, Steven J. Finnegan 
> <sjf at controlsoftcorp.com> wrote:
> 
> >I can't help with your problem, but how do you restart the 
> frontend from a 
> >telnet session? When I do this, it just says "Cannot connect 
> to X server"
> >
> >Thanks,
> >sjf
> >At 23:28 8/5/2003, you wrote:
> >>From: "Christian Hack" <christianh at pdd.edmi.com.au>
> >>Precedence: list
> >>Subject: [mythtv-users] Changing System Time
> >>Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:55:37 +1000
> >>To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> >>Reply-To: christianh at pdd.edmi.com.au,
> >>         Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> >>Message-ID: <005101c35bc6$368df0f0$1c01010a at christianh>
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> >>Since my system's time seems to drift a bit (it's a new 
> Asus MB :( ), I
> >>have had to update it manually lately since I haven't got around to
> >>setting up NTP.
> >>
> >>When I change my system time using the date command (my machine runs
> >>fast so it's back in time), while viewing anything (live TV or a
> >>recording), mythfrontend locks up. The display just stops. 
> Telnet into
> >>the box and kill and restart mythfrontend no problem. As far as I am
> >>aware any current recording in the backend process continues along
> >>happily.
> >>
> >>Any ideas why this might occur? Something peculiar to my 
> system or is
> >>mythfrontend going to get to stroppy at me for changing the 
> time? I'm
> >>changing it about no more than 2 minutes.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>CH
> >
> >
> >
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