[mythtv-users] feature request - shut off ALL recordings.

[Malcolm]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:21:01 -0400 (EDT)
"Chris Pinkham" <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:


> It's an undocumented feature mainly for development purposes, but if
> you don't mind restarting the backend twice (once to stop and again
> when you want to restart recordings), then you can startup mythbackend
> with the--nosched option.  This will cause problems if you try to do
> certain things since this totally disables the scheduler, which parts
> of Myth expect to be there, but it can be used in emergency cases like
> you're talking about.  It won't mess anything up, but it is likely to
> cause you to not be able to access certain scheduling functions within
> the frontend or even worse cause the backend to segfault if you try to
> access those scheduling functions from the frontend.  The --nosched
> option was put in for development purposes only so it's not meant to
> be used full-time to stop new recordings since Myth was not designed
> to run without the scheduler running.
> 

Thanks for the info Chris.  Hopefully I'll remember that next time
something like that happens.  I think it would be a great addition to
add such a feature somewhere in Myth.

Thanks
Malcolm