[mythtv-users] Finally using comflagging (wow!), have a few questions

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>  >>  Don't forget.. if you have another linux machine on your network, you
>  >>  can set that up to run commflag jobs for you to help offload your master
>  >>  backend. I was running with 4 machines at one point. A master backend, a
>  >>  slave backend/frontend and 2 that just ran commflag/transcode jobs. It
>  >>  was pretty nice until I got my electric bill and brought it down to 1
>  >>  box that does everything. ;)
>  >>
>  >>  -Brad
>  >
>  > Can you give me a few more details? I am planning on making my desktop
>  > a slave backend and use it just for commflagging. I was going to try
>  > just setting the master backend to never do commflagging and see if it
>  > was smart enough to automagically send it to my desktop.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Richard
>
>  Yeah, that would work. Just make sure you don't check the box that says,
>  "Only run jobs on recording host" and it will send jobs to any process
>  that requests it.
>
>  The best thing I've found to do is to create mountpoints on your slave
>  that are exactly in the same location as your master so there's no
>  chance of getting confused as to where to find the file you're trying to
>  flag. (Transcode jobs require this at the moment, so you might as well
>  just do it.)
>
>  Also remember that if your "slave" doesn't have any tuners in it, then
>  it's not really a slave and shouldn't run the backend (running
>  mythbackend on a box without tuners is not supported and you might see
>  bad things happen). If your box is ONLY going to do commercial flagging,
>  just set it up like you're setting it up as a slave backend, but only
>  run the mythjobqueue process on it, not mythbackend.
>
>  -Brad

I've basically got this working but I would like to run mythjobqueue
as a system service. I hacked up a copy of the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend file on my Fedora 8 system but I'm not
brave enough to use it yet.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Richard