[mythtv-users] controlling size of mythbackend log

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sun Aug 10 22:50:31 EDT 2003


On Sunday 10 August 2003 09:17 pm, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> How do I automatically control the size the of the mythbackend logfile.
>
> Just noticed that the /var filesystem was filled with 7.5gb of stuff, turns
> out the the mythbackend log file was 7.5gb in size, mostly filled with
>
> VIDIOCSYNCx: INVALID ARGUMENT
> x= 0 or 1
>
> Generally speaking what would cause this behaviour? It appears to be
> working and recording shows correctly....

Current CVS will stop printing out that error after it's been shown 10 times 
or so and try to recover from that condition.  

Isaac


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