<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 30/10/2008, at 4:04 PM, Robin Gilks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">running mythtv-setup shuts down the backend runs the setup and then on<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">exit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">repopulates the listings and restarts the backend.. it needs sudo for that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Oh dear - its totally non-standard then.<br><br>mythtv-setup on my system is not a script that plays with other things but<br>an executable built using the standard mythtv libraries (I always build<br>from source).<br><br>I wonder why the person who wrote it decided on reusing the name of an<br>existing executable in the mythtv suite.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Under the MythTV builds for Ubuntu a number of binaries are renamed to .real, like mythtv-setup.real, with a wrapper management script to make sure the system is in the correct state to run the tools correctly, like shutting down the backend.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>