The init script for freevo 1.6.1 (latest ~ package as of this bug report) has a function named 'checkconfig' that makes sure at least one service is available. If the function finds nothing configured, it prints and error and returns 1. If something is configured, the function does not return any specific value. The function should return 0 when everything is OK. Otherwise it returns some undefined value (or maybe it is defined, but it sure ain't 0 for me!) which causes the script to bail without any message at all. Simple one-line fix: put a 'return 0' at the end of the 'checkconfig' function. Reproducible: Always
No checkconfig here: #equery f freevo | grep config /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/config.py /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/helpers/convert_config.py /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/video/configure.py /usr/share/doc/freevo-1.6.1/plugin_writing/code/config.py /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py Could you please check that? Are you using the ebuild in portage tree?
Oh, that init script! Please read the warnings of the ebuild: ewarn "Please remove ${ROOT}/etc/init.d/freevo because is no longer used" ewarn "and runnining freevo as root could be a security risk" That script is there only to grant compatibility (and time to switch) to users, but is not supported anymore and you should REALLY find a better way to autostart freevo, as from 1.7 or from 2.0 ebuild that script will be removed.
I am running the backend services on a server. Autologin shells are not an appropriate option for the 'recordserver' and 'webserver' facilities of Freevo. These sorts of daemon services are what init scripts are for! ;-) Of course you are correct that the *frontend* should not be run as root as part of the init scripts, and I'm not challenging that position. I am challenging the assumption that Freevo is not being used as a backend recording system.
You would like to run recordserver as root, but this would mean that mencoder itself would be run as root. Also it would mean that your recordings would be owned by root. If you really need to autostart recordserver before login, add the line: su -c 'freevo recordserver start' username where username is the name of a NONROOT user, to your /etc/conf.d/local.start file. (there's no need of a password when the su command is executed from root)
The right tool for this job is 'start-stop-daemon --user freevouser'
