[vdr] Re: Commands executed in connection with timers

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> 
> Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de(Klaus Schmidinger)  18.09.01 23:12
> 
> Once upon a time Klaus Schmidinger shaped the electrons to say...
> 
> >Well, no offense, but sometimes I really ask myself why I spend
> >valuable time in writing documentation, if nobody cares to read it...
> 
> shame on me.
> real sorry.
> 
> >See VDR/INSTALL:
> 
> Maybe there is the problem:
> That there are several documents.
> Knowing that the text is there in INSTALL it's ok.
> But not knowing...only grep would be users friend.
> And in many gnu projects that ends in "look into
> the source"...
> 
> But placing all in one?

C'mon, you can't be serious about that...
Separating the INSTALL and MANUAL parts does make sense, IMHO.

But of course you're free to do

   cat [A-Z]* > rainers-complete-doc-file

if that helps you ;-)

> >  Automatic shutdown:
> >  -------------------
> 
> >  "...Your program must
> >  also initiate the actual shutdown procedure of the computer. After
> >this   your program should return to VDR. VDR will not automatically
> >exit after   calling the shutdown program, but will rather continue
> >normally until it   receives a SIGTERM when the computer is actually
> >shut down. So in case   the shutdown fails, or the shutdown program
> >for some reason decides not to  perform a shutdown, VDR will stay up
> >and running."
> 
> >So what you want to do is possible, just don't initiate the shutdown
> >if somebody is still working, and return to VDR. VDR will not call the
> >shutdown program again before another MinUserInactivity time has passed.
>                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Ah, thanks, that was not clear.

Ok, that wasn't listed in the INSTALL file. I'll add that.

Klaus
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