[mythtv-users] How to disable mythlogserver?

tino.keitel at gmx.de tino.keitel at gmx.de
Wed Mar 13 10:48:20 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 21:18:39 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 06:32 AM, tino.keitel wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 16:19:05 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> >>On 2/19/2013 14:35, Lee Donaghy wrote:
> >>>i've 'chmod -x' mine another user from the ubuntu thread on this deleted
> >>>it, myth still works fine.
> >>>probably will have to redo it when updates are installed.
> >>MythTV works fine, but you will never receive any logs. It will make
> >>things a bit hard if you ever need to go back end figure out why
> >>something happened.
> >That's not true. I can still collect log output from stdout and feed it
> >to a log daemon which does log rotation by size, compression etc.
> >
> 
> Ummm...  mythlogserver writes the log messages that go to
> stdout/stderr, so if you get rid of mythlogserver...

Thanks. I didn't know that. Actually, I tried to get some details about
how mythlogserver works and what it does without digging in the code,
but failed. All I see is that I now have a CPU eating, unstable
component in MythTV that doesn't give me any benefits compared to 0.25.

Regards,
Tino


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