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| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | runvdr | 11 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -4300,3 +4300,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History - cDevice::Transferring() can now be used to determine whether the (primary) device is currently playing in Transfer Mode (based on a suggestion by Reinhard Nissl). +- The 'runvdr' script no longer uses the $VDRUSR environment variable to set + the user id under which 'vdr' shall run. Just add the '-u username' option + when you call 'runvdr'. @@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ watchdog timer to restart the program in case something happens that causes a program hangup. If you change the command line options for the call to the VDR program, be sure to NOT use the '-d' option! Otherwise VDR will go into 'deamon' mode and the initial program call will return -immediately! +immediately! 'runvdr' needs to be started as user 'root'. Use the '-u' +option to run the actual 'vdr' program under a different user id. Setting the system time: ------------------------ @@ -5,12 +5,9 @@ # If VDR exits abnormally, the driver will be reloaded # and VDR restarted. # -# Set the environment variable VDRUSR to the user id you -# want VDR to run with. If VDRUSR is not set, VDR will run -# as user 'vdr'. -# # Since this script loads the DVB driver, it must be started -# as user 'root'. +# as user 'root'. Add the option "-u username" to run VDR +# under the given user name. # # Any command line parameters will be passed on to the # actual 'vdr' program. @@ -18,11 +15,11 @@ # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and # how to reach the author. # -# $Id: runvdr 1.15 2005/12/31 13:30:11 kls Exp $ +# $Id: runvdr 1.16 2006/02/04 15:20:48 kls Exp $ DVBDIR="../DVB/driver" VDRPRG="./vdr" -VDRCMD="$VDRPRG -u $VDRUSR -w 60 $*" +VDRCMD="$VDRPRG -w 60 $*" LSMOD="`/sbin/lsmod | grep -w '^dvb' | wc -l`" KILL="/usr/bin/killall -q -TERM" |