[vdr] Re: Child protection / access control module

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Steffen Barszus wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 19 December 2002 11:10, you wrote:
> > domolink morocco wrote:
> > > ...
> > > @ Klaus , It seems to me that the file channels.conf is locked when VDR
> > > is running because the prog accesses to it, do you have any idea about
> > > how unlocking the stuff to changes the channel.conf without having to
> > > restart the programm ?
> >
> > VDR reads channels.conf only once, at program start. After that it only
> > _writes_ it when one of the channel settings is changed in the "Edit
> > channel" menu. The file is not "locked", so you can overwrite it at any
> > time. However, VDR will only read it next time it starts. And: you have to
> > make sure all the channels that have timers programmed for them in
> > timers.conf are present when starting VDR. Otherwise no timers will be set
> > at all.
> >
> > Klaus
> 
> 1) how does vdr react if channels.conf is write-protected ?

There should be an error message and any changes to the channel definitions
will not be written back.

> 2) is a kill -HUP vdr possible ? (restart of only vdr is otherwise fast enough
> I think and runvdr will estart vdr , so for this purpose killall vdr would be
> enough.)

VDR doesn't support reading in the config files on a SIGHUP.

Klaus
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