[mythtv-users] Ad removal

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Oct 17 00:02:48 UTC 2013


On 10/16/2013 7:56 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> On 10/16/2013 7:17 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> Is that the only log file you have?  At one point, mythtranscode had
>>> its own log file.
>>
>>
>> Mythtranscode still does.  All MythTV applications do. Logs straight to disk
>> are placed in files in the format <appname>.<datetime>.<pid>.log.
>
> My understanding was that this behavior was configurable.  I tested
> this tonight.  On my system both mythtranscode and the backend are
> indeed logging to /var/log/mythtv/mythlogserver.log.  All of my old
> logs with individual processes have mod times that pre-date November
> 11, 2012.

MythTV will not log all processes to a single file. If you attempt to 
specify a --logfile, it will spit out an error and terminate. If you are 
logging to a single file, then you are actually logging to syslog, and 
syslog is in turn logging to a single file.


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