[mythtv-users] optimize before shut down

[Peter Bennett]

On 4/23/19 1:36 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 13:27 Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pb.mythtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
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>     What I do is as follows:
>
>     I have a script that gets run as the pre-shutdown check command. In
>     there I check date and time and decide whether certain things need
>     to be
>     done (backup, optimize, other things). If it decides that, for
>     example,
>     dailyrun.sh needs to run, it returns 1 to the check and starts up
>     dailyrun.sh. It continues to return 1 to the check until
>     dailyrun.sh is
>     finished, then returns 0 which allows the shutdown. I keep files in a
>     directory with dates so that it knows if something is already run for
>     the day and does not run it again.
>
>     See
>     https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/mythshutdown.sh
>
>     for my script. It does a lot more than you are looking for, but
>     may give
>     you some ideas. That script runs "dailyrun.sh" once a day, the first
>     time a shutdown occurs. I am not sure how you will know the last
>     time a
>     shutdown occurs for the day, but running your optimize at the first
>     shutdown of the day should be just as good.
>
>     Peter
>     _________________________________________
>
>
> Yes Peter I think this is more of what I'm looking for, my question 
> now is, since I already have a pre shutdown check working (to check if 
> I'm logged in or not) how can these two be combined or will yours do 
> what mine is already doing and thereby repaceable?
>
>
>
There are checks for users logged in via ssh, but you cannot just plug 
that script into your system. It has many other things that will not 
work for you without appropriate setups.
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