[mythtv-users] Where's the log file?

[Kevin Kuphal]

ffrr wrote:

> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
>> ffrr wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to find the backend log (as reported in the system 
>>> status section of the frontend.  All I have found is a .logrotate 
>>> file in /etc/logrotate.d with this inside it.
>>>
>>> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log {
>>>    notifempty
>>>    missingok
>>>    compress
>>>    compresscmd /usr/bin/bzip2
>>>    uncompresscmd /usr/bin/bunzip2
>>>    compressext .bz2
>>>    weekly
>>>    rotate 4
>>>    size 10M
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> But, /var/log/mythtv  is empty.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, where is the log?
>>
>>
>>
>> What does your startup script for mythbackend look like?  Are you 
>> capturing a log file?
>>
>
> I see what you are getting at.  At the moment I just
>
> sudo -HP -u dklock mythbackend &
>
> in my rc.local script, and I could redirect the output to a log file. 
> Thanks for that suggestion.
> You see, I thought it was handled more elegantly than this, because of 
> the 'log' that the mythfrontend GUI info page can display.  Where is 
> _that_ kept? - in the database?   The reason behind my looking for 
> this file is that from time time it reports "Last message repeated xxx 
> time" but I can't see what message it means.
>
The logging information in the status screen is in the database.  Any 
other logging is done from the startup of the backend.  For reference, 
my startup script on RH9 looks like:

mythbackend --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/$prog.log --pidfile 
/var/run/$prog.pid

I believe the --logfile option will do what you want.  Also note that 
--verbose controls the amount of information in the log.

Kevin