[mythtv-users] irexec fails to start on boot
Alec Leamas
leamas.alec at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 08:18:30 UTC 2016
On 14/01/16 01:18, Robert Dege wrote:
> Alec,
>
> The socket location was the problem. In /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, I set
> REMOTE_SOCKET="/dev/lircd". Even though /dev/lircd was a soft link to
> /var/run/lirc/lircd, irexec was failing since it wasn't following the
> sym link.
It's not that it doesn't follow the symlink. In 0.9.0 the irexec socket
location is just hardcoded. This is actually a bug, fixed since long.
> I updated the REMOTE_SOCKET variable to point to
> /var/run/lirc/lircd, and now it works fine.
Happy that it works for you. However, please don't top-post, it makes
the archives to a mess.
Cheers!
--alec
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