On RE50, I've been trying to work out where mythfrontend and mythbackend are invoked during boot up. I've greped all the files below /etc and in a bunch of other places and drawn a blank.

I want to stop it being invoked automatically so I can experiment with some drivers (I.E. invoke the module and test the build) before invoking myth.

Any pointers?

Thanks,
David

I no longer have an R5E50 to verify this against, but in R5D1 mythfrontend is called from /home/mythtv/.fluxbox/apps with a line like so:
KnoppMyth-run resides in /usr/local/bin.

There are entries in each of the /etc/rcX.d directories for mythtv-backend - Symbolic links to /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend. will remove those, and will put them back in place.

Again, this is from R5D1, but I'm pretty sure they are in the same places in R5E50.

KnoppMyth uses a debian-ized SysV style init. That means that the daemon scripts are under /etc/init.d and that there are ordered symbolic links under the various /etc/rc?.d directories for the various run levels. In keeping with standard SysV init semantics all the scripts in init.d take at least "start" or "stop" at their command line argument. Many also take "restart", "force-reload", "status" and other options.

The script for the backend is /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend, to stop the server you can run the following command as root:

There are also key short cuts for this available from the frontend.

The frontend is actually started up as a desktop application rather than a daemon. The script in question is /usr/local/bin/KnoppMyth-run which does a variety of other setup stuff and is invoked from the /home/mythtv/.fluxbox/apps config file. You can exit the front end just by hitting Escape until it asks you as yes/no question and exiting to the desktop.

Thanks, ~/.fluxbox/apps it is.

That has solved my problem

- David

I experimented and added the KDE desktop, but now can't switch back. This is now presenting a problem with Mythtv wakeup and shutdown as the desktop is asking for passwords.

Where is fluxbox invoked? How do I find where KDE is invoked?