[mythtv-users] killing backend

[Joe Ripley]

On 10/19/07, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> I have not been able to solve a problem I have regarding unwanted hd
> activity resulting from some malfunction associated with the backend.
> The rattling away by the hd for 5 minutes every half hour is driving me
> nuts and the only way I can think of, to stop me tearing my last few
> hairs out, is to stop Mythtv working all together. So, please help me,
> how do I stop Mythtv working?

Log in as root or as the user who owns the mythbackend process and do this:

kill -TERM `ps ax |grep mythbackend |grep -v grep |cut -b 1-6`

(Note: Those are backticks, not quotation marks)

This will kill any process with the word 'mythbackend' in it.

-- 
Joe Ripley
vitaminjoe at gmail.com