Re: Mythtv logging

On 29/11/2012 21:33, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 11/29/2012 08:45 AM, Duncan Brown wrote:
>> Hello All
>>
>> I'm not a huge fan of the current mythtv logging method which results in
>> huge amounts of separate log files, so I've changed to using syslog.
>>
>> This involves changing the command in init.d/mythbackend to "--syslog
>> local7" instead of "--logpath /var/log/mythtv/"
>>
>> This works great, but every time I upgrade the init.d file is
>> overwritten. Is there anyway of stopping that file being overwritten by
>> the upgrade each time?
> System local stuff belongs in /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend
>
> (at least it used to, I'm still running Fedora 14 on my mythtv backend
> server.)
>
> You might have to get the --logfile stuff parameterized such that you
> could override it with something in /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend in the
> distribution first....
>
>> cheers
>>
>> Dunc
Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I imagine I'll be using a 
combination of the lot!

cheers

Dunc