[mythtv-users] RE: MythTV Webminmodule - anyone interested?

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Chris Petersen wrote:

>>That shouldn't be too difficult.  Just write a shell script that restarts the 
>>backend service and slap a link/button to the script on the header of the 
>>mythweb pages.  You could even do it with php....
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>Except that the sysV init script to restart mythbackend must be run by
>root, php doesn't run as root, and chmod 4755 doesn't work on scripts.
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Not to mention the fact that you don't want to cycle the backend if it's 
busy recording, or commflagging...