[mythtv-users] channel changes via script suddenly stopped working--diagnose help

[Larry Roberts]

On 4/13/2013 6:17 PM, Paul Wootton wrote:
> On 13 Apr 2013, at 23:02, Larry Roberts <mythtv at american-hero.com> wrote:
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>>> Yup, shall I send him round? :-)
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>>>
>> so I'm running this on CENTOS and I see something in the startup script about it not running as mythtv because of some missing groups.  Thats most likely the reason I'm root.  Given that this box has a single purpose and its not internet accessable I'm not overly worried about it.
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>> so I have edited the script to do as you mentioned.  I am showing UID and EUID for 0 for both.  This is the only myth box I have.   i did a yum reinstall lirc  and it didn't seem to make a difference. Appreciate the help in solving this as do my kids who are anxious for some new cartoons to watch.
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>> :)
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>> Appreciate everyones support on figuring this out...
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> I'm beginning to run out of ideas.  Could there be more than one irsend on your system?
> Try adding a
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> print CCLOG `which irsend`,"\n";
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> to your cc scrppt just after the existing one; this will show the path irsend the the script is rinning.
> Then check that his is the same as the one you are running from the command line (by running `which irsend` from the commad line.
>
> Question to the audience - are then any environment variables that affect irsend?
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>
I have renamed irsend to irsend1 and then changed the script to reflect 
that as well.  In the logs it shows the same irsend1 being executed.

This is just soooooo odd.  I tried going from a perl script to a basic 
bash script and it still had problems.  as soon as I saw that the 
problem followed it I went back to my original script to eliminate any 
variables.