Udo Richter wrote: > Matthias Schwarzott wrote: >> In gentoo vdr package we added a small hack (attached), which >> implements a svdrp call "down" to tell vdr it is inactive and will >> shutdown in X minutes. >> >> We call this from shutdown-scripts to let vdr retry shutdown in 5 min >> (or other value if needed). > > Question is: Is this still needed? > > VDR already retries after an acceptable time, and VDR probably knows > better whether an user is currently active or not. The only reason I > could think of is that VDR was started without a timer nearby, and the > start script knows that this is not an user start. And sending a kPower > key press will also let VDR go inactive. > > Things were different in old versions, where VDR retried shutdown after > 3 hours or so, but that has changed. I assume that with the ability to force a reload by sending SIGHUP to the vdr process (which will be included in the upcoming version 1.5.1) this should not be necessary any more. Klaus
