Bug 218398 – media-tv/gentoo-vdr-scripts-0.4.3 vdr init script not using conf.d nice value when not run from console

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description kalium 2008-04-19 12:07:01 UTC]

Have a cron script that restarts vdr. However, I have configured vdr to use nice level -5. When the cron script restarts vdr, the nice value is at 5! Does not happen upon manual restart.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-04-19 16:03:36 UTC]

What does your cron script look like?

[Comment 2 kalium 2008-04-19 22:58:43 UTC]

#!/bin/bash

set -e || exit 1
exec >> /var/log/restart_vdr_to_save_epgdata.log
exec 2>&1
set -v
set -x
set -o pipefail

date

maxage=36000
epgf=/scratch/vdr/epg.data
minnextrel=300

# update epg.data file (if it exists) not more often than every 10 hours
# (well, actually, I don't want vdr to be restarted more often than that...)
if [[ -e "$epgf" ]]; then
    age=$(( $(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y "$epgf") ))
    (( age <= maxage )) && exit 0
fi

# make sure we aren't recording something right now
nextrel=$(echo -e "next rel\nquit" | netcat localhost 2001 | grep ^250 | perl -ne '/^250\s+\S+\s+(\S+)/&&print $1') || nextrel=$minnextrel
(( nextrel < minnextrel )) && exit 0

/etc/init.d/vdr restart

exit 0

[Comment 3 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2012-01-15 20:59:38 UTC]

Please reopen if gentoo-vdr-scripts-0.4.9 or newer is still affected.