[mythtv-users] lircd.conf

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 06:21:07 EST 2005


On 16/11/05, Marty Ravell <mythtv at rave-tech.com.au> wrote:
> >It simply means that you didn't use
> >
> >    lircd --logfile /var/log/lircd
> >
>
> My box is FC3 and I run this with :
>
> /sbin/service lircd start
>
> The /etc/sysconfig/lircd file had little in it apart from :
>
> # Options to lircd
> LIRCD_OPTIONS=
>
> Since your email I have tried various combinations of the logging argument
> in /etc/sysconfig/lircd but have not had any success. It always gives :
>
> unrecognized option '--logfile=/var/log/lircd'
>
> >You may have used some other filename or may have completely left off
> >the "--logfile" (or "-L") argument or may have permissions that disallow
> >the lircd user to create the file.
> >
> >Lack of a log file is never proof that something is not working (other
> >than proof that creation of that specific log file is not working).
> >
>
> Sounds logical. Thanks for the tip.
>
> >Mike
> >
>
> I have also tried stopping lircd with :
>
> /sbin/service lircd stop
>
> And then starting it from the command line with :
>
> /usr/sbin/lircd --logfile=/var/log/lircd
>
> This gives me an error :
>
> /usr/sbin/lircd: unrecognized option '--logfile=/var/log/lircd'
>
> Any idea why this would happen?

don't put the equals sign in the command.


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