[mythtvnz] Script help please

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Adam Bennetts <abennetts at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/01/2014 11:55 PM, tortise wrote:
>>
>> On 7/01/2014 7:12 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:
>>>
>>> As an aside, there is no real need to run mythlink from cron, myth has
>>> an events interface, so you can run it when a recording starts or
>>> stops or whatever.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure it would be good to run the script concurrently say three
>> times when three recordings stop at the same time (as an example)?
>
>
> I have mythlink.pl (rather than mythlinks.sh) configured as described at
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl to run on recording start (can't
> remember why I decided on recording start rather than end).

Start is the obvious time, the there is a link to in progress recordings,

> Never noticed
> any issues with it being run concurrently, I have it configured to only
> create a symlink for the new recording so it doesn't replace all symlinks
> every time.
>
> I have a nightly cron job to tidy up old links (deleted recordings) but I
> should clean up and move that to system events (delete, expire) as well.
>
>
>> I suppose the script could be revised to not run when its running but I am
>> not sure that really gains anything extra as I see no harm in it running
>> every hour, acknowledging that many times it would achieve nothing, I
>> suppose it could also be revised to run only if there is a change....
>
>
> Well, if it works, it works.
>
>
>
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