[mythtv-users] Backend shuts down on idle during user job.

[Paul Harrison]

David Watkins wrote:
> I'm using the dvbradioexport.pl script from contrib. I've set it as a
> user job and it works great.
>
> However I noticed that the end of my shows were sometimes missing.
> I'd assumed it was a scheduling issue but it turns out that my backend
> is shutting down while the script is still running.  The User Job
> takes 3 to 4 minutes to run and I have a 180s idle timeout set on my
> backend.
>
> In the backend log I can see
>
> I'm idle now... shutdown will occur in 180 seconds.
>
> and
>
> Running the command to shutdown this computer :-
>
> in the middle of the dvbradioexport script output.
>
> Of course I could extend my idle time,  but I thought the idle
> detection was supposed to take account of user jobs?
>
> Does anyone know if there's a setting I need to make to enable this?
>
> Thanks
>   
You could modify your script so it runs 'mythshutdown --lock' at the 
start and 'mythshutdown --unlock' at the end which will prevent the BE 
shutting down while it's running.

Paul H.