[mythtv-users] location of logs?

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 13:55:45 UTC 2005


On 27/06/05, Frostykev <frostykev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> right now I am trying to test and run mythbackend from
> a terminal window, not throgh the startup script.
> Does mythbackend not log if its launched that way?
> 
> Where is the terminal script located so I can place
> that options line in it?
> 
> Right now my backend is not generatating
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
> 

I think you have to pass the logfile location to mythbackend when you
run it.  If you just type 'mythbackend' in a terminal then the logging
output appears in the terminal window.  If you want to capture it you
could type:

mythbackend > logfile


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