New v6.3 instructions?

[loonsailor]

I don't remember for sure, but I think it's set up to start automatically. There should be a script called sagetv in /etc/init.d. There should be links to that script in the other startup directories, like /etc/rc2.d, called something like S98sagetv, which is what will cause it to run automatically. If there aren't, those can be created with update-rc.d (>sudo update-rc.d sagetv defaults 90).

I think that originally mine was set up to run the script earlier in the startup script (S30?) and that didn't work well for me. If so, and if you have problems with cold starts, you could remove the early link (>sudo update-rc.d -f sagetv remove) and then re-add it later in the startup, with the command suggested above.

[dshields]

Originally Posted by loonsailor

I don't remember for sure, but I think it's set up to start automatically. There should be a script called sagetv in /etc/init.d. There should be links to that script in the other startup directories, like /etc/rc2.d, called something like S98sagetv, which is what will cause it to run automatically. If there aren't, those can be created with update-rc.d (>sudo update-rc.d sagetv defaults 90).

I think that originally mine was set up to run the script earlier in the startup script (S30?) and that didn't work well for me. If so, and if you have problems with cold starts, you could remove the early link (>sudo update-rc.d -f sagetv remove) and then re-add it later in the startup, with the command suggested above.

Thank you.

[dshields]

Originally Posted by loonsailor

I don't remember for sure, but I think it's set up to start automatically. There should be a script called sagetv in /etc/init.d. There should be links to that script in the other startup directories, like /etc/rc2.d, called something like S98sagetv, which is what will cause it to run automatically. If there aren't, those can be created with update-rc.d (>sudo update-rc.d sagetv defaults 90).

I think that originally mine was set up to run the script earlier in the startup script (S30?) and that didn't work well for me. If so, and if you have problems with cold starts, you could remove the early link (>sudo update-rc.d -f sagetv remove) and then re-add it later in the startup, with the command suggested above.

Does this look correct to you?

:/etc/rc2.d# ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2009-11-06 22:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 123 root root 4096 2009-11-07 11:59 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  677 2009-10-19 11:18 README
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2009-11-06 20:36 S16ssh -> ../init.d/ssh
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2009-11-06 20:36 S19lirc -> ../init.d/lirc
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2009-11-06 20:36 S19mysql -> ../init.d/mysql
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   27 2009-11-06 20:46 S20nfs-kernel-server -> ../init.d/nfs-kernel-server
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   16 2009-11-06 22:00 S20sagetv -> ../init.d/sagetv
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2009-11-06 20:36 S20samba -> ../init.d/samba
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2009-11-06 20:36 S23ntp -> ../init.d/ntp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 2009-11-06 20:36 S25bluetooth -> ../init.d/bluetooth
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2009-11-06 20:36 S50rsync -> ../init.d/rsync
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 2009-11-06 20:36 S70dns-clean -> ../init.d/dns-clean
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 2009-11-06 20:36 S70pppd-dns -> ../init.d/pppd-dns
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2009-11-06 20:36 S91apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   22 2009-11-06 20:36 S99acpi-support -> ../init.d/acpi-support
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 2009-11-06 20:36 S99grub-common -> ../init.d/grub-common
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 2009-11-06 20:36 S99laptop-mode -> ../init.d/laptop-mode
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 2009-11-06 20:36 S99ondemand -> ../init.d/ondemand
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 2009-11-06 20:36 S99rc.local -> ../init.d/rc.local

Is there a command line way to see if SageTV has started?

I used these:

/etc/rc2.d# pgrep sagetv
/etc/rc2.d# pgrep sage
/etc/rc2.d# ps -e | grep -i sage

None returned anything.

However, maybe it is not shown because it is run inside Java?

/etc/rc2.d# pgrep java
1657

[bcjenkins]

ps -ef |grep sagetv/server |grep -v grep

but if you want the pid you can check the pid file for easy access.

B

[dshields]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

ps -ef |grep sagetv/server |grep -v grep

but if you want the pid you can check the pid file for easy access.

B

Thank you.

And thanks for your blog post about Comskip on Linux.

[loonsailor]

I notice from your listing that sage is started before samba. If you need samba - mounting any smb file systems, etc. - you might want to move sage later in the boot process. On the other hand, if it ain't broke...