[mythtv-users] mythtv backend restarts every night at midnight!?

Ma Begaj derliebegott at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 10:51:12 UTC 2009


2009/2/16 Ben Coleman <arrikhan_mail at yahoo.com.au>:
> Does anyone know where controlled restarts of mytthv come from? I bootup my
> backend box and it kicks off the mythbackend script ... as per task below.
> I'm running .20 at the moment.
>
> At midnight every night, it restarts, impacting anything being recorded
> through this time, by starting a second recording of the same show from
> midnight onwards, and obviously stopping the original one.
>
> /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
> --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>

MythTv will not restart your box under any circumstances  if it
records at the moment or if it should start recording in few
moments/minutes.

Your restarting is coming from some other application. Check your
cronjobs (cronjob -l).


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