[mythtvnz] Detect manual power-on and start MythFrontend - how?

[Hadley Rich]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:46:26 Matt Poff wrote:
> I'd like to set things so if I manually power the machine on I don't  
> need to launch the frontend manually - it's a pain having to wait  
> around for the system to boot so I can launch the frontend from  
> MythWelcome. What's the best way to do this? There don't appear to be  
> any init hooks available to MythWelcome to test how the machine was  
> started up. Mythbackend has the $status var for detecting a manual or  
> auto start-up but this isn't used by MythWelcome.
>
> Curious to know how others are handling this (if at all)?

I don't handle this as our boxes are always on, I also don't know of any built 
in ways to handle it.

If you don't get any better ideas then I'd probably run a script at startup 
which does;

grep "woken up by" mythbackend.log | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'

(where ever your backend log is) and start mythfrontend based on the result of 
that.

hads
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