[mythtv-users] is there an easy way to reboot in software throughmyth

[Andy Long]

Could you not just incorporate the use of an sh script to call a reboot of
the box (or, presumably, the backend)?  Jarod has done something similar for
his front end

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php

It's about halfway down the page under  "Make Myth even more wife-friendly,
aka make the power button do something more useful"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Kremser" <ryan.kremser at gmail.com>
To: "John Williams" <williamsbyron at gmail.com>; "Discussion about mythtv"
<mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] is there an easy way to reboot in software
throughmyth


> John, you speak of what is happening to me, As it is setup right now i
> don't have a keyboard connected to the computer so i was looking for a
> way to either restart mythbackend through the myth interface (as menu
> option) or restart the whole system which i have been doing through a
> ssh session from another room which was kind of a hassle.  The swatch
> seems to be what would be perfect for me, any ideas where i could
> learn more about it?
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:08:11 -0600, John Williams
> <williamsbyron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Not sure exactly what you're doing. How are you deleting these
> > > recordings exactly? Are you deleting them by hand, or something?
> > >
> > > You should be able to delete recordings under the Manage Recordings
> > > menu which deletes the files from disk and updates the mythtv
> > > database. You certainly shouldn't need to reboot afterwards.
> >
> > I can speak to what I've seen. If I delete a recording from the view
> > recordings menu while a program is recording my backend crashes. If he
> > is new enough not to know how to restart the backend then a reboot
> > will be the only fix.
> >
> > Yuo can restart mythbackend using (/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart)
> > from the command line.
> >
> > There is a log file monitoring tool called swatch that some people are
> > using to monitor for the crash and restart the backend if it crashes.
> > I haven't figured out where to put the entry to make swatch run at
> > startup so mine isn't working. once I spend some time to figure this
> > out I'll be better off. Right now I just am not deleting from the view
> > recordings page, and especially during a recording.
> >
> >
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> >
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