[mythtv-users] Mythbackend startup shutdown settings

Don Brett dlbrett at zoominternet.net
Tue Jan 30 00:17:46 UTC 2018


On 1/28/2018 2:45 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 01/28/2018 01:12 PM, Don Brett wrote:
>> I've migrated my database from earlier versions and just noticed that 
>> the backend setup (general settings) has entries for "Backend stop 
>> command" and "Backend start command".  Should I update those to the 
>> systemd commands?
>>
>> Start backend:
>> sudo systemctl start mythtv-backend
>>
>> Stop backend:
>> sudo systemctl stop mythtv-backend
>
> That's my choice and I have entries in sudoers.d/mythtv for them.
>
> You may find that sudo service mythtv-backend start/stop also work
> and may be in sudoers already (works for me on Ubuntu 17.10.)
>
Hmmm, I tried both methods from a command line and they worked, but when 
adding into setup, it hung the mythtv setup program....had to kill x to 
get out of it.  Maybe a permissions thing, I'll report back if I find 
anything,

Don


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