[mythtv-users] Using mythlink.pl in a system event.

[Thomas Boehm]

Zarthan South wrote:
> Thanks
> The only reason I had for wanting to delete the individual links was
> thinking that recreating the links might disturb an in progress video
> playing.

To prevent this from happening, I create the symlinks in a temporary
location and rsync it over to the final destiantion.

/usr/local/bin/mythrename.pl --link /tmp/mythtv --format
%T/%py%pm%pd-%pH%pi-%T%S
rsync -avz --delete /tmp/mythtv/ /var/lib/mythtv/recordings2/

HTH
Thomas