[mythtv-users] Mac OS X: Preview errors

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Mon Jan 16 12:32:05 UTC 2012


At 7:36 PM -0800 1/15/12, Yeechang Lee wrote:
>Joann Bessler <bessler at dccnet.com> says:
>> Yes, whenever I restart the machine (infrequently) I open a terminal
>> session and start mythbackend from the command line. Inelegant, but
>> it works for me.
>
>Another method of starting something upon booting or rebooting is the
>@reboot clause in crontab:
>
>@reboot	       /usr/bin/mythbackend
>

Ah, but cron is frowned upon in Mac OS X--that is one of the many things that launchd is to replace.  And the path to the backend is:

/Applications/MythBackend/MythBackend.app/Contents/MacOS/MythBackend

Craig


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