[vdr] Re: Clean VDR shutdown

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alessandro Pasotti" <apasotti@isoleborromee.it>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: [vdr] Clean VDR shutdown


> Hallo,
>
> Im using VDR succesfully from about 3 months and I would like to thank
Klaus
> and all this list for the help.
>
> I still have a problem in shutting down VDR and PC cleanly:
>
> I start VDR launching runvdr from a script under mandrake 8.2, the script
is
> called with
>
> /etc/init.d/vdr start
>
> and calls directly runvdr
>
> If I call
>
> /etc/init.d/stop
>
> it kills vdr and unload the driver
>
> I tried to put a line in commands.conf that calls the a.m. script with
stop
> argument (it works from the command line but not from a VDR menu because
it
> maybe kills itself before unloading the driver).
> I've read on this list that vdr can shutdown itself, but how to do it from
the
> OSD menu?
>

First, you have to put the shutdown-command into runvdr (see vdr --help).
Then you can either press the power-button or use the time-out to shut down.

See file MANUAL for further information or "man 5 vdr" after you've done a
"make install".

Rene



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