[mythtv-users] Program Schedules: working or not? How to (re)configure?

[Leif Pihl]

I feel like I'm drinking from a firehose.



On Sep 25, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
>> [1]   How do I _JUST_ get the BackEnd started?
> 
> Typically its:
> 
>  /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start
> 
> but this may vary by distribution.
> 
>> [2]   Are you referring to some program in particular, like the old X-window thing I heard of years ago, or when you say "X", are you using it as a generic variable?
> 
> That old X-window thing.  You're using it any time you run Linux with
> a graphical user interface (with a few exceptions).
> 
>> [3]   How do I...   "see it in the process list" ???
>> Do I use verbatim the first line that you quoted:
>>   " mythtered% ps uax | grep backend " ???
> 
> mythtered is the name of my mythtv backend box.  My wife picked the
> name, showing her sense of humor.  The part up to and including the %
> is just my command line prompt.
> 
> ps is a unix command which prints the current process table.  "uax"
> are options to ps to get it to show all the processes.  grep is a
> command which filters its input based on a pattern.  The pipe
> character | feeds the output of the command on its left side into the
> input of the command on its right side.  Put it all together and it
> prints the process info of any process with "backend" in its name.
> 
> Eric
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